Stand at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and look down. The banded rock walls dropping nearly a mile to the Colorado River ...

The Grand Canyon is a marvel on the landscape of North America, a breathtaking geological feature in the southwestern U.S.

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

From subtle changes in geochemistry to massive volcanoes, the geologic wonders of the world never cease to amaze. Here we span the earth to find the best natural wonders of the world, both in their ...

Explore the modern science of geology, beyond rocks, revealing how it integrates various sciences to understand Earth and solve problems. So, first off, I apologize for the clickbait headline, but don ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North ...

Curiously enough the first time the word "geology" appears is in the last will of an Italian naturalist in 1603. In the 17th century noblemen began collecting natural objects in their cabinets and ...

Wildfires in Colorado, sand bars in California and ore deposits in Wyoming. Laboratory analysis, field work and computer models. Those are just a few of the research opportunities that await you when ...