Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

It draws from a geological time capsule of fossil reef cores, extracted from the seabed under the Great Barrier Reef. The findings suggest rapid sea level rise in isolation did not spell the end ...

In a recent paper, US Geological Survey (USGS) geologists Geoff Ellis and Sarah Gelman estimated large potential for—and large uncertainty about—the amount of hydrogen accumulations in the ...

Abstract The mining area in northern Namibia is rich in mineral resources, but the geological structure is complex, and the traditional mineral exploration technology is faced with certain challenges.

Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth — including the evolution of life. Many different representations of the timeline have been created, and many approaches ...

Fossilisation is the process by which organic materials like plants, animals, and other life forms, are preserved in the Earth’s crust over geological time. Fossils provide snapshots of ancient ...

Bjornstad: In geologic time. So it’s kind of like it’s easier if you can think back 17 million years ago, it’s easy to think back to the beginning of the earth at 4.5 billion years.

The beauty of creating a time scale from scratch, Gramling said, is that scientists can take everything they have learned about timekeeping on Earth and apply it to a new system on the moon.