The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

If life ever existed on Mars, the Perseverance rover's verification of lake sediments at the base of the Jezero crater reinforces the hope that traces might be found in the crater. A small ...

"The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice" looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath ice sheet that was stored at ...

The Helena Valley sits atop a variety of different sediments and rocks, making it particularly susceptible to earthquake ...

Tamara Ewoldt, an environmental scientist, on July 14, 2023, cuts apart bags of rock chips collected from well drilling sites across Iowa. The chips are washed, placed in envelopes and cataloged at ...

Scientists sifting through ancient sediments laid down just after Earth’s most devastating episode of extinctions may have found minuscule fragments of the massive extraterrestrial object suspected to ...

Recent storms left several areas of the borderland recovering from flooding but concerns remain for residents on El Paso’s west side after an arroyo was filled with sediment and rocks that caused an ...