New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown ...

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are ...

Areas of sedimentology and stratigraphy that currently motivate the research our faculty and students include: (i) mechanistic understanding of sediment formation, deposition, and lithification ...

Geochemical analysis of sediments deposited roughly 2.6 billion years ... group of researchers in a different Australian shale formation. “We’re about 1,000 kilometers away,” Chen says.

Beneath Namibia’s desert, scientists have stumbled upon bizarre ancient tunnels etched deep into solid rock. Their origin ...

The land, roughly the size of 11 Padang fields, has been designated for industrial and special purposes. Read more at ...

A sandstone slab discovered in the Snowy Plains Formation, located in the Mansfield Basin of southeast Australia, preserves ...

New discoveries of small animals that lived more than 200 million years ago are changing how paleontologists think about ...

For generations, the Scioto Valley has been home to a resilient community. But beneath the surface of this southern Ohio landscape lies a toxic truth, a legacy of contamination emanating from the ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...