Every week, Pictured Rocks rangers take visitors on a free, guided hike to unspool some of the “tapestry of geological layers ...

The history of life on our planet is a long and winding path. Much of what we know about how life has evolved comes from fossils. The physical remains of organisms and the evidence of behaviors, such ...

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 ...

Professor Joshua Hardt helps lead a seismic monitoring project to enhance public understanding of science in West Texas.

Geography and Geology Fossil water appears all over the globe in humid, semi-arid, and arid regions as well as areas of permafrost. Lake Vostok, for example, is one of more than 70 subglacial ...

The geology of the Oxford, Ohio area includes (but is not limited to) the following rocks and features: Limestone Southwestern Ohio's limestone (a sedimentary rock) is saturated with life — life from ...

“People hear the word ‘geology’ and they think ‘rocks.’ We study the whole Earth and want our department name to reflect that,” says Tracy Gregg, professor and chair of the department, which is part ...