A huge, copper-toned formation in West Africa dominates a mesmerizing photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this hypnotic image of ...

When Controlling Complexity was announced as the theme for the 2023 Maptek Geology Challenge, Caroline Burden, Engineering Geologist with GMEK, was already dealing with an interesting dataset at ...

This semester's classes are GE 1200, GE 2000, GE 2020, and GE 2300. Introduction to materials and processes that shape the earth we live on. Lecture and laboratories acquaint students with minerals, ...

Environmental geologists, through geologic data and application of ‘principles of geology’, can identify / remediate / prevent / resolve human-induced environmental issues before they become ...

THIS book is essentially different from James Geikie's “Structural and Field Geology,” which makes its appeal through its fine presentation of rocks as they actually appear on bare surfaces of the ...

I am a structural geologist, one who studies how and why the crust of Earth and other terrestrial planets deform in response to stresses arising from plate motions, loading and erosion. My research ...

Far below our feet, two colossal structures the size of continents sit atop Earth’s core, one beneath Africa and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. These dense, hot anomalies have puzzled geophysicists ...

Benthic foraminifera are rare on the Nazca Plate and patchy on the continental margin of the Arica Bight. The population recovered from an apparently sediment-free portion of the Peru-Chile Trench ...