Discover the year’s essential reads in fiction and nonfiction. The Earth still being the Earth, there’s a certain amount of familiar ground, so to speak, in Bjornerud’s newest book, “Turning to Stone” ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The rock cycle naturally takes thousands to millions of years, but scientists just identified a new form of rock that cements in under four decades.

Structural geology is the discipline devoted to the study of rock deformation and the resulting features – such as folds, faults, joints and other discontinuities – that record the history of tectonic ...

An unparalleled study by Brenda Beitler Bowen, a Central Michigan University postdoctoral research associate, on salty acid lakes in Australia provides a rare, modern analogy to ancient geologic ...

Most folks pick up a stone and see … a rock. Hard. Inanimate. Unremarkable. Hand Central Washington University senior geology lecturer Nick Zentner a hunk of granite or quartz, though, and he has ...

One of my projects underway is the development of a geological guide of the Northwest Lancaster County Recreational Trail. This trail stretches from Columbia north to Falmouth, about 14 miles, all ...