The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

Another low-intensity earthquake was felt by Karachi residents on Monday, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). The tremor was the third within 24 hours.

The find has been made public as a number of geological groups celebrate the 200th anniversary of the map. Smith pioneered the science of stratigraphy, helping to map the layers that make up the ...

The inspiration for this map was the need to provide park visitors with a kiosk map that could convey terrain and topography ...

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.

Geologic maps don’t make headlines. You probably haven’t seen one unless you work in energy, construction, or science. Yet, over the past century, these documents have quietly shaped the way ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt ... Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. “We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary ...

Bell Geospace, an Edinburgh-based airborne geophysical surveying company, is collecting information to create geological maps. The company said it had returned to the area to complete work started ...

Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have compiled a 1:200,000-scale geological map of the lunar Orientale basin ... This eventually cooled and hardened, creating a multi-ringed impact ...

(Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region. That map could have a wide range of ...

A pensioner has said he has been “blown away” by the response to a map of Scotland he made using rocks collected on geology trips ... said he wanted to create a map of Scotland made out ...