Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history. Curiously though, a sizeable layer representing anywhere from 250 million years to 1.2 billion years is missing. Known as the Great

Author: Anna Kusmer / Source: Atlas Obscura While using the bathroom in one of Washington, D.C.’s congressional office buildings, if you let your eyes wander to the stall dividers, you might notice something that transcends the political moment by a couple million years: fossils engraved on the

On November 11th, the planet shook for about 30 minutes, yet not a single human being felt it. At approximately 9:30 UT, a seismic event happened approximately 15 miles off Mayotte, a French island located off Africa’s southeast coast. The seismic waves from the area near Madagascar and Mozambique

Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News Mayandi Sivaguru and Jessica Saw/Bruce Fouke Lab/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology/Univ. of Ill. It took a close look at crystal formation in Yellowstone’s hot springs to understand stones much closer to home. Growth and dissolution

Author: Beth Geiger / Source: Science News The newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago. Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic here and now. 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