OSO — The authors of an important geology study of the Oso mudslide have won one of the Geological Society of America’s top prizes for their report. University of Washington professors Joseph Wartman ...

Geology often gets a bad rap as the boring study of rocks and minerals. I’m hear to show you otherwise. Geology is a high-octane window into Earth’s vibrant, often violent history. Every rock tells a ...

A recent study shows that there is a lot more sediment trapped beneath Greenland’s ice sheet than we realized, which could ...

ATHENS, Ohio — Like pieces in a giant jigsaw puzzle, continents have split, drifted and merged again many times throughout Earth’s history, but geologists haven’t understood the mechanism behind the ...

What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest? A new analysis of the past 12 million years' of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging ...

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.

When University of Delaware professors Doug Miller, Art Trembanis, Craig Cary and Patrick Gaffney first began offering of a series of study abroad trips to New Zealand, they wanted the program to not ...

New study that includes contributions by Baylor planetary geophysicist Peter James, identifies previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on Venus WACO, Texas (June 21, 2021) - A new ...