Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that ... There are numerous signs of some kind of geologic shift during the Archean Eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), with estimates of exactly ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something dramatic happened about 500 ...

gases released from deep Earth are thought to have a substantial impact on the composition of Earth's atmosphere over ...

Could the global flood narrative in the Bible have a basis in fact? Scientists have different theories on the historicity of Noah's flood.

There’s an area in China that’s home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks.

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...