One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth ...

Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Amid persistent and frequent record heat, it may be surprising to hear that Earth is currently relatively cool — at least in ...

The anomaly could be extremely useful for geological beryllium ... Dominik Koll explains, “For periods spanning millions of years, such cosmogenic time markers do not yet exist.

Analysis - Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region - notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger - have put ...

Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often defined by some sort of geologic trauma ... which is around the time of this landscape-altering megaflood. “The morphology of these ridges is ...