Geology News

A fascinating new discovery by geologists is giving Prineville residents insight to what caused the unique landscape surrounding their city.

Several mining companies, which have been allotted mining blocks in Jharkhand, are not able to start operations in the state as the projects are yet to be cleared by the forest department.

Royal Dutch Shell's experimental oil shale development facility in Piceance Basin, Colorado.

Young planets around other stars may be easier to spot because they stay hotter way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton. For a few million ...

Gasoline prices may be falling - they could drop below $3 a gallon by the holidays - but T. Boone Pickens merely shrugs.

Penny Brothers tells Michael Brown about porphyrins, the porphyrin-boron mismatch and their potential role in neutron capture therapy Penny Brothers is an associate professor at the University of Auckland.

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

A major earthquake in California is a matter of when, not if. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there is a 62 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. - While paleontologists may scour remote, exotic places in search of prehistoric specimens, Tufts researchers have found what they believe to be the world's oldest whole-body fossil ...

Athens - Seismologists say a 5.1-magnitude earthquake has rattled the island of Evia north of Athens.

He discovered columns, statues, sphinxes and ceramics associated with the Ptolemies' royal quarter -- possibly even the palace of Cleopatra herself... he has found that much of ancient Alexandria sank beneath ...

The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.2 struck at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday near Los Gatos.

Local planetary geologist Chris Okubo is on a mission to understand the past roles of groundwater and faulting on Mars by studying similar locations on Earth.

Recognizing the importance of earth sciences, Florida Governor Charlie Crist and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are joining states across the nation to recognize October 13-17 as Earth ...

Tens of thousands of fledgling auklets and petrels perished in their rocky nests, as Kasatochi erupted for the first time in centuries, smothering under a deep blanket of ash anything that couldn't flee.

Wet and dry caves in southern Arizona provide a cool way to learn about the regiona s history and geology.

The San Diego Board of Port Commissioners has approved funding for a new interdisciplinary research center to study San Diego Bay, its watershed and San Diego's beaches and coasts.

A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages.

The magnitude 6.1 quake was the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in 20 years, according to Christa von Hillebrandt, director of the seismic network on the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck was centered about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Anegada in the British Virgin Islands.

FOUR people were killed in Russia's Chechnya region on Saturday when an earthquake shook the Caucasus mountains.

Officials say a strong earthquake has hit Russia's North Caucasus region, an uncommon occurrence for the region.