In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...

Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Chicago Press, 2020 ($65) Strata are the ribboned horizontal layers of minerals and ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

A rare early copy of William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, previously thought lost, has been uncovered by Geological Society archivists. The new map has been digitised and made ...

Yan, M. and Wang, H. (2026) Seismic Forward Modeling of the Lower Ordovician in the Northwestern Sichuan Basin. Journal of ...

Are catastrophic geological events, like massive volcanic eruptions, random— or do they follow a specific cycle? It’s a question geologists have long asked, but one that’s been difficult to answer ...

Researcher uncovers why most of the records left by ancient rivers preserve commonplace processes. The Torridon sandstone in northwestern Scotland preserves six kilometers of river sediment from ...