Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of years are missing. Now, researchers at Utah State University have unveiled a ...

The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve been studying the area for two centuries and mapped the region in great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 27—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — When geologists want to study what the earth looked like 350 million years ago or more, they come to ...

This photo shows an example of the 3.7 billion year-old banded iron formation found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have uncovered ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events ...

For the first time ever, geologists working in Antarctica have found a type of rock that’s known to bear diamonds — a discovery that could expose the polar continent to opportunistic prospectors.

Marcia Bjornerud loves rocks. Not just under a petrographic microscope, but as animated entities with properties and personalities born from their long, eventful lives. “I’ve reached a point in my ...

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(TNS) — The Pennsylvania Geological Survey and partners are building a web tool to help potential developers of carbon storage projects peruse the state's geological offerings. Like a Zillow for rocks ...

The League of Lonely Geologists is a game of finding rocks, sharing them with strangers, and hurling them into a mysterious space portal. “The League of Lonely Geologists” (screenshot by the author ...