Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

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 ...

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

Geologists today have a good understanding of Earth's interior, based on pioneering work by Isaac Newton and Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in the late 17th century and early-to-mid 20th century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...