The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

W hen geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas , he didn't expect to come back ...

A new exhibition examines the environmental and cultural histories of a storied place on Kingston's shoreline now known as Belle Park.

The Meghalayan Age marks the most recent subdivision of the Holocene Epoch, which began approximately 11,700 years ago, ...

New images from ESA's Mars Express reveal Olympus Mons' colossal scale and intriguing features. Frozen lava tongues cascade ...

Modern scientists point to an empirical truth: We live on a planet in constant motion and mutation. As Winchester presents it ...

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

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The town of Glendive makes a perfect base for exploring Makoshika. This small community of about 5,000 people offers several motels, restaurants, and the essentials you might need for your adventure.

The meeting – attended by 1200 delegates - marked only the second time in 85 years that the SVP Annual Meeting had taken place in the United Kingdom. For the University of Birmingham, the event ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...