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 ...

Scientists traced the path of groundwater in the Rocky Mountains, from snowpack to faucet, and found the true length of the ...

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?

Science X Science News Wire : Scientists explain how shale oil-bearing rocks of the Volga-Ural region came to be -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Science X ...

“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 ...