Do you ever find yourself wondering about the rocks beneath your feet? If so then the USGS has exactly the tool you're ...

Two geologists from the Geological Survey of Norway will drill into 2.5 to 2 billion year-old rocks in Russia to seek to understand the interaction between geological processes that created the ...

Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182-Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and continents ...

The little airplane banked to the right. From my seat on the port side I could see its shadow crossing the ice. The skis made it look rather like a duck coming in to land on water, webbed feet ...

Since the original release of the Ohio seismic reflection profile by the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) in 1988, several interpretations have been presented for the structure ...

Geologists studying ancient environments have found preserved evidence of salt diapir structures in the rock record. These are well known from the spectacular Flinders Ranges in South Australia, which ...

A new radioactivity model of Earth's ancient rocks calls into question current models for the formation of Earth's continental crust, suggesting continents may have risen out of the sea much earlier ...

These worm-like features are thought to represent the fossilized tracks of slime-mold like organisms in 2.1 billion year-old rocks. The scale bar represents a centimetre. (A. El Albani / IC2MP / CNRS ...