Lake Tahoe served as both a classroom and a time machine for Western Nevada College geology students recently, as Dr. Winnie ...

You probably know that we have a state bird and a state flower and a state tree. You might know that we also have a state invertebrate fossil. No, it is not THE trilobite — there is no such thing.

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

New study at South Pole discovers embayment the size of the UK formed part of East Antarctica’s elusive edge. East Antarctica is the least known region of Earth. Studying this remote part of the ...

An ancient meteorite strike hit what is now Scotland significantly later than previously thought, scientists say. The finding will rewrite the region's geological history and change what researchers ...

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