ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

Concrete is a new kind of rock…We’ve made about 500 billion tonnes of it, which is enough for one kilo for every square metre of the Earth’s surface, land and sea.” In the summer of 2015 Jan ...

Thinking about the Earth as an object requires some imagination. As far as objects go, it is a really big one: The Earth’s diameter is about 8,000 miles (with a bit of variation when measured at the ...

Listen to the latest from the world of science, with Shamini Bundell, Dan Fox and Nick Petrić Howe. Your browser does not support the audio element. For more than ...

It’s an abnormally hot day in September and I’m standing in a cattail marsh in eastern Wisconsin, trying to change the way my students view the world. They’re all distracted—by the heat, homesickness, ...

TNO proudly presents the new edition of 'Geology of the Netherlands', a comprehensive reference work on the subsurface of the Netherlands. The book covers the geologic history of the past 420 million ...

I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...

A geologist, a microscopist and a doctor walk into a lab and, with their colleagues, make a discovery that overturns centuries of thought about the nature and composition of kidney stones. The team's ...

Geology in our middle Colorado River watershed isn’t a simple affair, but it’s not remarkably complicated or incredibly obscure, either. It follows the general principles of geology, with young layers ...

The Japanese word "tsunami" translates to "wave in the harbor. The name derives from the experience of fishermen, who would only discover the terrible destruction these waves can cause when they ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows that this process is ...

The Netherlands is flat, but under our feet lie mountains of knowledge dating back hundreds of millions of years. And it’s absolutely crucial for the future. With the new edition of Geology of the ...