The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

One of the key players embracing this challenge is Kazakhmys Barlau, a company rapidly becoming a powerhouse in geological ...

The latest issue of the University of Wyoming’s only peer-reviewed scientific journal, Rocky Mountain Geology, features an ...