The “quartz-monitor” research project investigates the intrinsic chemical variations of detrital monocrystalline quartz and inclusions (mineral and melt) as an innovative sediment provenance tool. The ...

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

( If successfully implemented, our field protocol for preparation and optical microscopy of rock samples will help to ...

As researchers in paleolimnology, the historical study of freshwater sediments, we examine the sediments that settles at the ...

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The impact of hurricanes when they travel over land, or when they affect ships or oil-drilling platforms, are quite well ...

CNW/ - Kootenay Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "KTRI") is pleased to announce plans to advance the Sweet Spot Pb-Zn-Ag +/- ...

Seasoned conservator Ivan Myjer is replacing pieces of San Antonio's "major achievement" in historic construction.