The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

The mechanisms underlying two important phenomena in the Archean—the emergence of continental crust and the presence of an exceptionally strong geomagnetic field—remain poorly understood. Notably, ...

For the first time, NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered definitive evidence of an ancient shoreline on Mars. The rover ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...