As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in ways that will affect the hazards residents face far into the future.

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

The identity of Jezero Mons on Mars is no longer a mystery. First observed back in 2007, the elevated structure on Jezero Crater was quickly recognized as a mountain, but whether it was a volcano or ...

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after ...

Our courses are designed to emphasize the field description and documentation of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, the interpretation of outcrop- and regional-scale structures and the ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

GEOLOGY & NATURAL RESOURCES. Cleveland sits at the junction of 2 major land types. From the Portage Escarpment southeast and ... forming the earliest sedimentary rocks, the Albion or Newburgh ...

“However, the adjacent sedimentary rocks are now confirmed to be at least 4,160 million years old, which is ‘only’ about 400 million years after the accretion of our planet and of the Solar ...