This article discusses a study published in Nature that reveals the previously underestimated contribution of geological weathering of carbon-rich sedimentary rocks to the global carbon cycle. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jan 08, 2025, 02:54pm EST Jan 09, 2025, 12:23pm EST A new ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is using an innovative X-ray imaging approach to reveal how compression reshapes the tiny spaces and stresses within sandstone—findings that could predict how this ...

Scientists say they've extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have been placed at approximately 4.16 billion years old during the Hadean-age ...

An unparalleled study by Brenda Beitler Bowen, a Central Michigan University postdoctoral research associate, on salty acid lakes in Australia provides a rare, modern analogy to ancient geologic ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in ...

WASHINGTON — Old Stone Age humans were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people make tools; ...

A team of archaeologists in the United Kingdom says it has traced dozens of Stonehenge's huge rocks to two quarries in west Wales. The rocks were transported 180 miles, dragged on wooden sleds, the ...