Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known ...

Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

Bathurst Metals is pleased to announce coincident electromagnetically defined structures with multi-element + gold in soil anomalies. A total of five defined structural trends, all east-west in ...

NV Gold Corp. , is pleased to announce the initiation of a 4,000-foot Reverse Circulation Drill Program at its 100%-owned Slumber Gold Project located approximately 80.5 kilometers northwest of ...

By studying sedimentary layers — rock formations stacked like layers of a cake — planetary ... The planet's exposed surface ...

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?

Igneous rocks are formed from molten lava cooling and solidifying, sedimentary rocks form from the accumulation of sediments such as sand and clay particles over time, while metamorphic rocks are ...

When you are being trained as a palaeontologist or a geologist, you are told fossils only occur in sedimentary rocks,” ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...