Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.

What’s hiding inside? Why Wyoming’s Devils Tower is still a geological mystery Standing tall at 1,267 feet in Northeastern ...

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a ...

Tucked away in northern New Mexico, where the Sangre de Cristo Mountains create a dramatic backdrop against azure skies, lies Cimarron Canyon State Park. A 378-acre slice of paradise that somehow ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Geologists studying ancient environments have found preserved evidence of salt diapir structures in the rock record. These ...

The cherry on top of all these issues is a “prominent fault” that runs directly through the tomb. The fault visibly ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth ...