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Beneath the Grand Canyon’s iconic layers, scientists have uncovered a fast-paced, 500-million-year-old tale of evolution that ...
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drawing young and old alike. In the Danxia Shan national geopark tens of millions of years of erosion and tectonic activity have sculpted red sedimentary rock into dramatic peaks and valleys.
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Community members in Little Rock are voicing their concerns after the city temporarily halted adoptions of what it terms "potentially dangerous breeds" at the Little Rock ...
These sites showcase unique geological phenomena and natural beauty, drawing visitors and researchers ... as the Varkala Formation—a Cenozoic sedimentary marvel. What sets them apart is that ...
There’s a hoodoo (rock pillar) shaped like the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, which tops a weathered mountain that has lasagne-like layers of sedimentary ... for the night. Drawing the curtains ...
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car ...
In a recent study in the journal Sedimentologika, for example, researchers documented a new kind of sedimentary rock made from coastal slag deposits in the U.K. This rock follows other formations ...
Act up? Rock out? Why not take a page from blockbuster actors Jared Leto and Keanu Reeves and do both? With the Tinseltown A-listers in the Indianapolis area to perform Thursday — Leto with ...
Technically termed “reduction spheroids,” these features typically form from organic matter entombed in sedimentary rock that is rich in oxidized, or rusted, iron, which gives such rock a ...