Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

A review by the United States Geological Survey found that 1.6% of well water was above 4 mg/L, but 85% of wells were below 0 ...

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

How do you date the disappearance of something? That is what Curtin University geologist Milo Barham asked, summarizing the ...

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive ...

Gravity. “The” geological column was compiled with the aid of the fossil species found in rocks; especially with the use of index fossils who were of great value. An index fossil basically is: Index ...

I’ve tried to keep you close to home with this column, but today, I will send you a little further afield. However, in the grand scheme of things, as you will see, this destination is really in our ...

South Africa’s landscapes are more than just photogenic—they’re ancient archives of Earth’s deep history. Beneath the savannahs, coastlines, and mountains lies a dynamic geological past shaped by ...

The risk stemming from human exposure to actinides via the groundwater track has motivated numerous studies on the transport of radionuclides within geologic environments; however, the effects of ...