“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Bob Whisonant is a Civil War buff with a peculiar way of looking at the Civil War. If you ask him to talk about, say, the Battle of Antietam, he might begin, “Well, it all started 500 million years ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BATH — Maine’s First Ship and the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust invite geology ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Marine and coastal geoscience play a critical role in understanding ancient and modern geological history, offshore and coastal hazards, and climate change. Deep-water ...

Concord is widely known for another aspect of its history: It is intimately associated with the Transcendentalist movement in the quarter century before the Civil War. That distinction, too, it owes ...

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A practicing geologist can benefit from the history of geology professionally in two main ways: by learning about past mistakes so as not to repeat them and by finding out about different ways to ...

For many years, Titan’s thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn’s largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in contrast ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio The same forces that cause volcanoes, mountains, and ocean basins also cause climatic changes that have ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the release of the newest book in the award-winning Roadside Geology series, Roadside Geology of Texas, Third ...

This story was first published in KCUR's Creative Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. To understand local lithology is to understand Kansas ...