Unraveling the mysteries of our planet, scientists have recently discovered the fate of a large chunk of Earth’s crust that ...

Sedimentary layers contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over millennia. Researchers have been working ...

Big Four Mountain's mystery: 82-degree tilted rock layers defy geology's horizontal rule. There’s a basic rule in geology: Sedimentary rock layers build up horizontally. So how did the slabs of Big ...

Professor Amelia Villaseñor and her team uncovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya, showcasing long-term cultural ...

8 December 2000–Layered geologic outcrops on Mars, described in today’s issue of the journal Science–may be composed of sedimentary rock that dates from the earliest span of martian history, between 4 ...