Even teachers spend time in summer school. Teachers spent time this week traipsing through Garden of the Gods, touching rocks and learning about such things as alluvial fans, ancestral Rocky Mountains ...

The birth of modern geology is said to have started in the 18th century. The introduction of new concepts and thoughts about the Earth was a brave thing to do. Why is that? Because the believeth of ...

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I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...

The young students came to the Roux Center for a lesson on Maine geology. They got it, as well as Jell-O, Play-Doh, chocolate, puzzles, and interactive games. Two events overlapped serendipitously ...

PROF. RUSSELL'S beautiful volume is, in some sense, a companion to Sir Archibald Geikie's account of the volcanoes of Great Britain; but whereas the latter deals with volcanic relics of all ages in an ...

Some years past when I was pulling weeds in my yard, I unearthed a dirt-covered rock. This is not unusual or really worth mentioning except that when I brushed off the dirt, one side unveiled a dark, ...

Bicyclists who take part in next month’s Cycling Scandia event will get a geology lesson in addition to a 15-mile workout. Geologist Dale Setterholm, who retired in February as associate director of ...

A year of hands-on learning and fun awaits 30 local kids, thanks to two companies that invested in YMCA of Rapid City's 2019 Kids Campaign. The 2019 Kids Campaign sponsors annual YMCA memberships for ...