Researchers doing fieldwork in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Credit: Stuart Gilfillan

Rare gas find solves African landscape puzzle

Peaty sedimentary archive from a palm swamp collected with a Russian corer. (Image:Encarni Montoya)

A new study shows the evolution and changes of the vegetation...

Research vessel JOIDES Resolution off the coast of Hawaii. Credit: International Ocean Discovery Program.

Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic...

A new study from The University of Texas at Austin looks at the complex geology that contributed to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Complex geology contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster, new study finds

K-T Boundary / K-Pg Boundary

K-T Boundary “Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary”

Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta

K-Pg Boundary “Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary”

Massachusetts State Geologist Stephen Mabee and colleagues recently annoucned that newly digitized surficial geology maps of the entire state are available online now. They provide details of what Mabee calls the 'kitty litter' mix of glacial tills, various sands and gravels on the earth's surface. Credit: USGS/MassGIS

State geologist, partners create new surface geology maps for Massachusetts

The iron cycle in the ocean

Tracing iron in the North Pacific

Igneous intrusion

What is a Plutonic Igneous Rock?

Lavacicle Caves

Geology of Lavacicle Caves

New research predicts landslide boundaries two weeks before they happen

Continental plates around Greenland.

Icy Greenland’s heated geologic past

Earth

Geologist leads effort to update Earth’s geologic time scale

Earth's youngest banded iron formation in western China.

Scientists discover Earth’s youngest banded iron formation in western China

Amazing Landscapes and Rock Formations

+20 Most Amazing Landscapes and Rock Formations

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian...

Giant's Causeway

How Giant’s Causeway and Devils Postpile were formed

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

By analyzing centuries-old growth rings from trees in the Intermountain West, researchers at USU are extracting data about monthly streamflow trends from periods long before the early 1900s when recorded observations began.

Between the lines: Tree rings hold clues about a river’s past

Headwaters of Alpine streams approximately 30 million years ago (left) with an Alpine plateau and a meadow countryside.

Evolution of Alpine landscape recorded by sedimentary rocks

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