Tower Rock, a limestone formation in the middle of the Mississippi River, is newly accessible by foot. The destination is now popular with tourists, the Missouri Department of Conservation said. The ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

IPOH: Buntong is a densely populated suburb in Ipoh, famous for its Kampung Kacang Putih, a major hub of Indian delicacies.

More than 25 years ago, as an anxious freshman at a small, private, liberal-arts college in the Midwest, I sat stoically in front of a midterm exam in introductory geology. The course had been ...

Destruction of the abbey of Saint-Martin, Savigny during the aftermath of the French Revolution led to the scattering of its sculptures. Their origins were forgotten. Five such dissociated sculptures, ...

The echinoids are described from the middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Twenty-seven species are present including the ...

Researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis about the formation of the Alps while simulating seismic activity in Switzerland. This will help improve current earthquake risk models.