A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Grooves in rock formations of Jaisalmer are believed to be trails of marine worms that once wriggled along ocean floor, says ...

“But the deposition of the sediment and the fossils entombed within it must be younger than the age of the youngest grain, so, with many dates, we can bracket sedimentary ages.” By combining those ...

Fossils, Zircons, and a Fast-Paced Cambrian World. To understand the precise timing of these ecological and geological shifts, researchers employed Uranium-Lead dating on zircon crystals extracted ...

The presence of the foliated rock, likely slate, suggests that, before this rock metamorphosed, it was composed of limestone (the parent rock of marble) layered with small-grained sedimentary rocks, ...