STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...

The following is part of KRCC's 'Peak Past' essay series. I’m no geologist but I can’t help myself when I come across a pretty piece of pearly white quartz or a silver-flecked hunk of granite. I scoop ...

Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

Vikings, volcanoes, and sheep don’t immediately seem like they should all be connected, but this unlikely trio is actually ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, two enigmatic giant blobs have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new research offers fresh ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

Steve Petsch receives funding from National Science Foundation. Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other ...

A team of geologists is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia -- the Great Unconformity. A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into ...

It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...

Researchers probe deep secrets of trapped inclusions in garnet sand from Papua New Guinea. On a beach on a remote island in eastern Papua New Guinea, a country located in the southwestern Pacific to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon's geologic history is the inspiration for a new musical work and art exhibition titled "The Birth of Cascadia." It's a creative endeavor headed up by the Oregon Origins ...