Weathering is the mechanical and chemical hammer that breaks down and sculpts the rocks. Erosion transports the fragments away. Working together they create and reveal marvels of nature from ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of years are missing. Now, researchers at Utah State University have unveiled a ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river bed and banks. Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river. Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or ...

And attrition where rocks carried by the sea are knocked together and broken down into smaller and smoother pieces. These type of erosion create landforms such as headlands and bays, arches ...

Fields of geology range from the initial formation and differentiation of the Earth to modern surface processes, such as erosion and soil formation, and include Earth system history and the ...