An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the ...

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is home to some of the steepest cliffs, oldest rock, and craggiest spires in North America. The Gunnison River and the forces of weathering have sculpted ...

CNOOC Limited announced on Friday that the Bozhong 26-6 oilfield development project (phase I) has commenced production. Located in central Bohai Bay, with an average water depth of approximately 20 ...

An 84-year-old Rock Hill motorcyclist has been killed in the sixth cycle crash in York County in the past three months, officials said. Peter McLean died after the 1981 Honda motorcycle he was driving ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...

Hanika Rizo receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Jonathan O’Neil receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...

Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form. When you purchase through links on our ...

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long captivated humanity with its stark, seemingly barren landscape. Today, it’s a cold, dry world – a shadow of its once-vibrant past. But what if this desolate ...

Geologist Michael Ackerson holds a sample from Canada's Acasta Gneiss formation, home to some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Michael Ackerson We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our ...

In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the title ...