Beneath the Grand Canyon’s iconic layers, scientists have uncovered a fast-paced, 500-million-year-old tale of evolution that ...

The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to ...

Day, BYU geologists uncover lingering WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches to study how history still shapes the coastline today ...

Core Energy Minerals’ exploration at Rio Grande gets underway Sedimentary and basement hosted uranium mineralisation has ...

The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic ...

Newly found 600-million-year-old clues in the Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

The red planet’s sedimentary rocks mostly formed when water helped glue together sediments that accumulated in ancient rivers, lakes, and sand dunes. Still, says Siebach, “because of granite ...

A newly discovered karst cave dating back 480 million years in remote southwest China has revealed a pristine sediment “gene ... the cave’s ancient sedimentary rock. Zhao and geologist Zhang ...

The Cenozoic sedimentary cover corresponds to continental to marine sedimentary rocks and sediments deposited from the Oligocene to the present day in a drift tectonic framework. It presents a ...

When these sedimentary rocks weather over time, they release sediments into the environment. Because the rocks are infused with industrial waste, their sediments often contain toxic metals that ...