A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

This image shows the reconstruction of the terrestrial landscape before (B), during (A), and after (C) the mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period in ...

A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830 ... According to this view, a once-tumultuous period of change had slowed to today's calmer, more leisurely ...

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...

John Wesley Powell A professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan ... A shallow sea advances and retreats several times during this period, leaving behind the layers named Kaibab Limestone, Toroweap ...