Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The Arabian and African tectonic plates failed to pull apart 28 million years ago at the Gulf of Suez, but the area hasn't ...

Eckerd’s Fossil Club has gone through some changes since last semester. The newly titled Geology Club plans to broaden the ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

What history has long portrayed as a cautionary tale of a woman’s vanity bringing down a dynasty may have been the result of ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

This state is home to several popular national parks, but with the most natural arches in America, it presents a unique ...

While there is fossil evidence of life older than 3.3bn years, this is the first time that its molecular chemical fingerprints have been detected through high-tech sleuthing.