Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs and were joined by politicians including late Sen. Harry Reid and ...

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A new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers sheds light on one of the world’s great geological mysteries: a missing chapter of the earth’s rock record known as the Great Unconformity ...

A huge section of Earth’s fossil history is missing. Scientists know where it should be, but it’s not there. And now they think they know where it went. All over the planet, there are huge gaps in the ...

The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell scientists about past environments, much like pages in an encyclopedia. Except this reference book has more pages missing than it ...

Martite, a rusted form of magnetite, preserves the moment rocks were exposed to surface air and water—becoming nature’s forensic timestamp for deep time events. These rusted rocks tell when buried ...

London, Apr 19 (ANI): The oceans were loaded with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of almost all animals on Earth ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the ...