Earth is a stressed planet. As plates move, magma rises, and glaciers melt—just to mention a few scenarios—rocks are subject to varying pressure and compressional and extensional forces. The effect of ...

ATHENS, Ohio — Like pieces in a giant jigsaw puzzle, continents have split, drifted and merged again many times throughout Earth’s history, but geologists haven’t understood the mechanism behind the ...

OSO — The authors of an important geology study of the Oso mudslide have won one of the Geological Society of America’s top prizes for their report. University of Washington professors Joseph Wartman ...

Earth is our home planet, a bright blue marble spinning through space. The Earth is certainly beautiful, but why study Geology? Geology studies both modern and ancient environments, deciphering the ...

Everyone knows that water runs downhill. But what about watersheds? Where does that water drain? Knowing these answers can help save lives and reduce property damage during large rainfall events.

What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest? A new analysis of the past 12 million years' of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging ...

When University of Delaware professors Doug Miller, Art Trembanis, Craig Cary and Patrick Gaffney first began offering of a series of study abroad trips to New Zealand, they wanted the program to not ...