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The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...
Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...
Related: Massive tectonic collision causing Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet apart The Rainbow Mountains are ...
Dramatic cliffs, panoramas and suggestive rock formations are the reward for hikers in Danxia Shan, an easy weekend getaway ...
The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...
Here are some noteworthy, under-the-radar towns worthy of a detour on your next Canadian road trip: ...
In the Danxia Shan national geopark tens of millions of years of erosion and tectonic activity have sculpted red sedimentary rock into dramatic ... from an adjoining mountain by tectonic forces ...
Somewhere between 250 and 330 million years ago, a big tectonic boom closed the Agulhas Sea, compressing thick sedimentary deposits until they folded and thrust and formed a remarkable mountain range, ...
UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.