Desert: The L.A. Mag Guide to Geology. Author: Los Angeles magazine. Publish date: Feb 1, 2010. Butte. An isolated hill, with steep sides and a flat top, it may be the remnants of a mesa, which ...

Skeletal human remains were discovered in a desert area of Buckeye, Arizona, over the weekend, sparking speculation online they might belong to missing geologist Daniel Robinson.

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Harper Canyon is home to hundreds of magnificent ironwood trees (Olneya terota). They can become quite large and, though the pinnately compound leaves don’t provide abundant shade, they are ...

We learned about the desert’s ancient history. The land is silt and sand that resulted from ice sheet activity 15,000 years ago. Eventually, vegetation colonized the nutrient-rich earth, which ...

The Atacama Desert, recognised as one of the driest and oldest deserts on Earth, offers a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme hydrological and geological processes. Its remarkably ...

Gravestones can be made from plutonic rocks, like gabbro and granite, metamorphic rocks, like slate and marble, and more rarely of sedimentary rocks, likes sandstone and limestone.

The Buhais Geology Park Interpretative Center is located within the Jebel Buhais, an archaeological site that’s most notable for its extensive necropolis spanning the Stone, Bronze, Iron, and ...