The energy companies from countries such as Qatar and India have already shown interest in participation in the exploration ...

The Gulf of Mexico covered the gently sloped sand hills of lower Arkansas until about 50 million years ago. The Ouachita orogeny--the collision that pushed up what we know, in eroded form, as the ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

A detail from The Trek Through Time, a 16-plaque diorama at the U.S. Geological Survey’s headquarters in Reston, Va. This ...

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.