I’ve tried to keep you close to home with this column, but today, I will send you a little further afield. However, in the ...

Since lichens grow at a rate of 2-5 mm per year, it takes a long time for them to become established on ... and specimens to help you piece together the geological history of the Columns of the Giants ...

The geologic time scale provides the official framework ... “The shape (of the lake) restricts the mixing of the water column so the bottom waters do not mix with the surface waters.

Let's break it down. First, see the names of the columns? An Index fossil is any animal or plant preserved in the rock record of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic time ...

Newly recorded video captured the clearest images yet of a “geologic wonder” off Hawaii ... way that creates these unique hexagonal columns,” the trust explained. The towers likely date ...

These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these chapters together is the Geologic Time Scale. By looking at the layers beneath our feet ...

It’s one of three newly designated ages divvying up the Holocene Epoch, a geologic time period kicked off 11,700 years ago by the end of the Ice Age. First came a warming period, now dubbed the ...

We must, Laughlin says, think about the earth's past in terms of geologic time. For example: The world's total precipitation in a year is about one meter—"the height of a golden retriever." ...

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time. By Raymond Zhong For almost 15 years ...