One of Japan's biggest power companies plans to start a new type of geothermal system in Germany this summer. The closed-loop ...

John Wesley Powell 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.

that cut across layers after the rocks were deposited. This is the principle of cross-cutting relationships. The principle states that any geologic features that cut across strata must have formed ...

Illustrates how geology is expressed in the landscape. Images include deposition of layers and erosion into a canyon, erosion of layers into a mesa and a buttes, tilted layers and their ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in ... Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio ... The great number of fossils shows the nature of life in benthic communities in the Ordovician ocean. The ...

Smith's colourful and sophisticated geological map was based on his astute observation that rock layers (strata) could be identified by the fossils they contain. He noticed that the layers always ...

Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity. Our planet's interior is much too deep and hot to ...

scientists have never directly sampled rocks from this immensely important geologic layer. And that’s understandable, ...

The geological timelines add another layer of evidence against the dinosaur-oil myth. While most dinosaur species roamed the Earth between 230 and 66 million years ago, the organic material ...