The peculiar geology of the basin allows researchers to look at the record in extraordinary detail. Ten kilometres deep and covering an area of 260,000 square kilometres, Songliao is a rift basin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. In the Cretaceous period, some 115 million to 65 million ...

The Earth consists of four main layers: the crust, the mantle, ... to geology and the natural world. Aristos joined Newsweek in 2018 from IBTimes UK and had previously worked at The World Weekly.

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

Missing layers . Though the Great Unconformity is defined by the absence of rock, its age is known from the age of the rock layers above and below the gap.

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.

Geologists love beer for a simple reason - it makes you think a lot about geology. The quality of alcoholic drinks, especially beer, is defined by five factors: the flavor, the alcohol content ...

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 Middle Awash study area of Ethiopia's Afar rift has yielded abundant vertebrate fossils (≈ 10,000), including several hominid taxa1,2,3,4. The study area contains a long sedimentary record ...