The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the solid rock deep beneath our feet is not as rigid as previously thought. Scientists have ...

DR. C. G. KNOTT delivered a lecture on “Earthquake Waves and the Elasticity, of the Earth” before the Geological Society on June 9. He pointed out that seismograph records of the earthmovements due to ...

Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a 'pulse,' according to a new study. Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, ...

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How could the planet be covered entirely in ice -- a state known as 'Snowball Earth'-- and still give rise to multicellular life? The transition to such icy periods may not have been as abrupt as ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history. Curiously though, a sizeable layer representing anywhere from 250 million years to ...