A professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan, John Wesley Powell had more than just a passing interest in the layers upon layers of rocks exposed by the Colorado River.

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

The Grand Canyon is a visual textbook of geology and ecology. I'm going to talk about the geology this week, and the ecology next week. The major layers of the Grand Canyon.

The layers of Earth provide geologists and geophysicists clues to how Earth formed. ... [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The science "giologia," so Aldrovandi's hope, would study the origin of rocks, minerals, petrified organisms (Aldrovandi recognized some fossils as once living things) and the layers of earth.

Geology is an Earth science that investigates how the Earth formed and changes over time. Through studying rock layers, geologists learn about the past and reconstruct the puzzle of Earth’s history.

Geology puts things in temporal perspective; it reminds us that, while the current version of the world is ephemeral, it’s also intimately connected to countless others, long past and still to come.

During its field trip June 13-17, the research group, made up of Vietti; Lily Jackson, a postdoctoral researcher in the UW Department of Geology and Geophysics; Kevin Chamberlain, a research professor ...