Lake Tahoe served as both a classroom and a time machine for Western Nevada College geology students recently, as Dr. Winnie ...

March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also ...

In the wake of a wildfire, there's often an assumption that burned landscapes will be more susceptible to landslides. But new research from the University of Oregon suggests it's not always that ...

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, is the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock record. A Boise State University ...

It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

Less ice covers the Arctic today than at any time in recent geologic history. That's the conclusion of an international group of researchers, who have compiled the first comprehensive history of ...

The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st ...