For the last hundred and fifty years or so, geologists have been trying to wrap their heads around the mystery: in some ...

In a sense, the ocean is choking on greenhouse gases. As much as a third of the carbon in the atmosphere is saturating seas, making them more acidic. Rowan Martindale, a doctoral student in earth ...

How can we measure the influence of human civilization on the story of planet Earth? There are the relics of culture, tools and keepsakes buried in the ground beneath the ruins of thousand-year-old ...

The technique, called stratigraphic plane analysis, replaces traditional one-dimensional analyses with a multidimensional display of geologic data. It can be used to analyze data from fossil records, ...

Scientists understand that Earth’s magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with ...

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The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, is the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock record. A Boise State University ...

The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen in ...

A Purdue University researcher known for his studies on evolution and the extinction of the dinosaurs has developed a tool that unmasks short-term events previously overlooked in the geologic record.