Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and "sinkites" that turn a basic rule of geology on ...

TORONTO, ON - Geoscientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Istanbul Technical University have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows that this process is ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...

Deep beneath the choppy waters of the North Sea, something strange is challenging the very rules that have guided geologists ...

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Now you don't see it. Now, you do. And now you don't see it again. Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object – where one never existed – on Cassini mission radar images of ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to explore how CZU Lightning Complex fire victims rebuilding their homes could be relieved of geologic hazard ...