Geology Science

You find an unusually heavy, dark-colored rock in your backyard, in a field, or while hiking. The moment you pick it up, one question...

When people see a six-rayed pattern inside a sapphire, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a star sapphire. But the pattern...

Emerald is already one of the most recognizable gemstones in the world, but some emeralds look unlike anything most people expect to see. Inside...

Earth is generally referred to as the Blue Planet, but within its familiar landscapes there are places so alien that they can easily be...

Fossils are more than ancient remains—they are windows into vanished worlds. Each fossil preserves a moment in time, capturing organisms that lived millions of...

Nature has been shaping the Earth's surface for billions of years. However, this shaping is not random, chaotic or unplanned. On the contrary; factors...

Natural resources are elements, substances, or features found in the environment that are utilized by living organisms, particularly humans, to satisfy their needs and...

The theory of plate tectonics is the unifying framework of modern geology.It explains how the Earth’s rigid outer shell — the lithosphere — is...

An unconformity is contact between two rock units.Unconformities are typically buried erosional surfaces that can represent a break in the geologic record of hundreds of millions of years or more. It it called an unconformity because the ages of the layers of rock that are abutting each other are discontinuous at the unconformity. An expected age of layer or layers of rock is/are missing due to the erosion; and, some period in geologic time is not represented.