We celebrate International Women’s Day by featuring another series of famous female geologists both past and present.

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Sloan teaches vertebrate paleontology and historical geology in the Institute of Technology ... “The whole United States was absolutely opposed to continental drift,” Sloan said. Opinion among U.S.

While it might seem unchanging from a human viewpoint, the grand timeline of geology tells another story. Mountain formation, continental drift, and the unstoppable force of water all contributed to ...

The view that the continental masses are subject to some horizontal drift has been often adopted, as, for example, by the reviewer in 1915 (Scot. Geog. Mag., 31, pp. 258–60) to explain the ...

Dynamic coordinate systems that automatically adjust for continental drift are being developed ... As Australia slowly drifts toward Asia, the implications for the continent’s geology, biodiversity, ...

Tucked away in west-central Indiana lies a verdant wonderland that feels like it was plucked from a fantasy novel. Shades ...

Several core principles in geology, like plate tectonics, can actually be observed in action today, so rewinding the movie of Earth’s continental evolution is largely a very safe bet ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split – and ultimately create a new ocean – along the great East African Rift Valley.