“Exploring the Berryessa Region: A Geology, Nature and History Tour,” a new book by publisher Backcountry Press, engages and guides visitors through a relatively unknown yet remarkable landscape near ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...

With tectonic plates bumping and grinding against each other, Earth is a pretty active planet. But when did this activity begin? A new study from Yale University claims to have found evidence that ...

We’ve known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there’s always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...

Generally speaking, it’s easy enough to make sense of the last few million years of climate patterns—the world looked much as it does today, so changes in greenhouse gas concentrations or ocean ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The evolution of geology as an independent science can be envisaged as a relatively continuous process yet marked by three fundamental steps.

THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped this land into one of the most complicated rock piles in the world. It began under the ...