The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Dozens of earthquakes rocked the region, but a tsunami didn't seem imminent. Then the massive waves began crashing in.

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

After acquiring 75% of the Missoula, Mont.–based press’s list last year, the geoscience nonprofit is “focused on shepherding ...

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is excited to announce this year’s Science Journalism Fellowship awardees: Tim Hornyak, ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has made ...

Mapping out geology across the U.S. is surprisingly difficult, but the USGS has managed just that, and its map is more ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

In late August, the U.S. Geological Survey quietly released a new tool that could reshape how Americans understand the ground ...