Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

Lake Tahoe served as both a classroom and a time machine for Western Nevada College geology students recently, as Dr. Winnie ...

“Exploring the Berryessa Region: A Geology, Nature and History Tour,” a new book by publisher Backcountry Press, engages and guides visitors through a relatively unknown yet remarkable landscape near ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 54. Geologic and Environmental Dynamics of the Pontchartrain Basin (FALL 2009), pp. 12-22 (11 pages) The Pontchartrain Basin extends over 44,000 km² from ...

Whenever I start a multi-day geology class, I start with a brief “History of Geology” section. Covering what folks believed 400 years ago is a good way to set the tone for what we will be studying the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BATH — Maine’s First Ship and the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust invite geology ...

It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

A practicing geologist can benefit from the history of geology professionally in two main ways: by learning about past mistakes so as not to repeat them and by finding out about different ways to ...

No more appropriate writer could have been found for this condensed history of geology than the author of the recently published “History of the Geological Society of London.” The personal touches ...

Some years past when I was pulling weeds in my yard, I unearthed a dirt-covered rock. This is not unusual or really worth mentioning except that when I brushed off the dirt, one side unveiled a dark, ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...