The construction of large defensive walls in antiquity was not merely a matter of brute force and manpower, but of deep ...

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

The Acasta Gneiss is known as one of the oldest rocks on the Earth, estimated to be about 4 billion years old, located in the ...

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

D.C.’s official rock, Potomac bluestone, is a metamorphic material you can actually find all over the city and the focus of ...

Geologists studying ancient desert rocks have stumbled on a microscopic tunnel system that looks uncannily deliberate, a ...

When combing the area, scientists drilled through these milky white quartz veins, passing through the acidic dikes. They ...

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 ...

A view of a previous landslide in which lives were lost in Elgeyo Marakwet County. As heavy rains continue pounding Kenya's highlands, deadly landslides in Elgeyo Marakwet County have claimed at least ...

The new Cooperative National Geologic Map from USGS offers map layers including age, geomaterial, and original map source. Credit: USGS, Public Domain A new, precisely detailed map of the continental ...

ABSTRACT: Tertiary to Early Miocene post-collision granitoids intrude the whole Rhodope Metamorphic Complex (RMC; northern Greece and southern Bulgaria) during the extensional event that followed the ...