The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and "sinkites" that turn a basic rule of geology on its head.

I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...

Lake Tahoe served as both a classroom and a time machine for Western Nevada College geology students recently, as Dr. Winnie ...

Peeling back each of Earth's layers reveals a lot about our planet's formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's layers ...

It’s an abnormally hot day in September and I’m standing in a cattail marsh in eastern Wisconsin, trying to change the way my students view the world. They’re all distracted—by the heat, homesickness, ...

Thinking about the Earth as an object requires some imagination. As far as objects go, it is a really big one: The Earth’s diameter is about 8,000 miles (with a bit of variation when measured at the ...