This video features coastal cliffs and rock formations along the Tasman Sea in southeastern Tasmania, Australia. Filmed in 4K with natural wave sounds and no narration.

Geologists studying ancient environments have found preserved evidence of salt diapir structures in the rock record. These ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them ...

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, invites you to attend a Master’s Thesis Defense by Brianna Bowlby titled “Provenance of the Narragansett ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.

AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...

In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, crashing meteorites, and constant tectonic activity repeatedly resurfaced ...