From ancient geological wonders to mystical caves and cliffside trails, Shillong hides some of the most unique rock ...

Spotify PIPESTONE, Minn. - For thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried a sacred, soft red rock from a patch of ...

Earth’s Rock Record Could Reveal the Motions of Other Planets Studying the layers of Earth’s crust, scientists have created a “Geological Orrery” to measure planetary motions dating back ...

Rock varnish, a thin, manganese-iron rich coating that develops over millennia on rock surfaces in arid environments, has emerged as an invaluable subject of study in both geological and ...

Rebecca L. Latson / Getty Images Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park is home to multicolored mesas, hills, and bluffs in a section of the park called the Painted Desert. Stratified rock ...

Rock layers in Ireland, Scotland provide clearest snapshot to date of ‘snowball Earth’ Records of Earth’s transition from a completely frozen state to a world full of life have yet to be found ...

There’s potential to store more than 14,000 megatons of carbon dioxide in the basalt beneath Oregon and Washington, according to a 2013 U.S. Geological Survey study.

Italian Renaissance artist and naturalist Leonardo da Vinci's work is still surrounded by many mysteries and apparently, he also included some geological secrets in his art.

To look for ‘critical minerals’ for renewable energy, Kansas Geological Survey takes a rock sample from thousands of feet underground KU Jul 20, 2024 - 10:00pm ...

Companies looking for minerals often go to the Iowa Geologic Site and Sample Tracking Program, a University of Iowa repository of 10 million feet of drilling samples, rock chips from more than ...