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 ...

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The Geological Society of America (GSA) proudly announces the acquisition of Mountain Press Publishing Company’s award-winning geology series, Roadside Geology, Geology Underfoot, and Geology Rocks!, ...

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 ...

In his seminal work of popular geology called Basin and Range, John McPhee first pinned the concept of deep time down on ...

Reshaping Alaska’s energy future with geologic hydrogen is the subject of a three-day workshop next week hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and the U.S. Arctic Research ...

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