The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to rise well above sea ...

The Meghalayan is one of three newly designated time intervals dividing the Holocene Epoch The newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago. Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

How can we measure the influence of human civilization on the story of planet Earth? There are the relics of culture, tools and keepsakes buried in the ground beneath the ruins of thousand-year-old ...

Nearly two dozen state geological surveys depend heavily on federal funds. A proposed budget cut could slow or stop key geologic mapping work. By Rebecca Dzombak Every spring for the last 31 years, ...

Hydrogen formed deep underground by natural processes could be a major new source of untapped carbon-free power–and unlike oil or gas, the supply is virtually unlimited. The push to wean the planet ...

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

Geologist Kirt Kempter tells the 300-million-year story of the Abiquiú area while exploring the boundary between the Rio Grande Rift and Colorado Plateau.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Bermuda has long been a geologic mystery, as its formation doesn’t match up with those of typical islands created by magma hotpots, such as Hawai‘i.