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

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

This surreal wilderness area has served as a filming location. Despite a name few have ever heard, it may be America's most beautiful destination.

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Tucked away in Huntingdon County, Trough Creek State Park showcases rock formations so uniquely spectacular that geologists get misty-eyed just thinking about them, yet somehow this 541-acre ...

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

“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 ...

In 2008, Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really ...

A new study has pinpointed what could be the oldest rocks on Earth, found within a remote Canadian rock formation, offering fresh insights into our planet's earliest history.. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

This Research Topic is Volume II of a series. The previous volume can be found here: Differences in Shale Oil and Gas Reservoirs across Various Sedimentary Environments: Theories and Applications </a> ...

KANAB, Utah — Visitors to Lower Calf Creek Falls at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had a near miss with falling rocks, which they caught on video, and now Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...