A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic. Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

The geologic time scale was not entirely intentional, at least at its start. In the early 1800s, geologists began to create maps and descriptions showing where different types of rocks occurred ...

Geologic time scales are long – too long for the human mind to really comprehend. Over millions, and tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of years, the Earth has changed from something ...

What you see here is an anachronistic mashup — a modern map, complete with geological features that did not exist 300 ... and a mind-bending way of relating to the world on a geological time scale.

The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval.

The world’s first high-definition geologic atlas of the whole Moon on a scale of 1:2.5 million was officially unveiled on April 21. The atlas, both in Chinese and English, includes the Geologic ...

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the ...

He made his first small-scale attempts to prepare a national geological map in 1801, sketching the outcrop pattern of seven strata onto an existing map of England and Wales. 9. It took Smith another ...