A billion years is missing from the geologic record; one UC Santa Barbara scientist believes he knows where it may have gone The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell ...

(Phys.org) -- The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today. Then ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from an area just west of Death Valley called Darwin Canyon. As you can see, there is a sharp, angular contact between two sedimentary formations -- an angular ...

A team of geologists is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia -- the Great Unconformity. A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the globe. Some are magnetic. And some of them rust – especially when exposed to water and oxygen. These characteristics provide clues ...

One of the things I love to do on this blog is share photographs of geology I've taken while doing field work, attending field trips/conferences, or simply traveling. I started this series of sharing ...

A new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers sheds light on one of the world’s great geological mysteries: a missing chapter of the earth’s rock record known as the Great Unconformity ...

A huge section of Earth’s fossil history is missing. Scientists know where it should be, but it’s not there. And now they think they know where it went. All over the planet, there are huge gaps in the ...

Martite, a rusted form of magnetite, preserves the moment rocks were exposed to surface air and water—becoming nature’s forensic timestamp for deep time events. These rusted rocks tell when buried ...

Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Or any record at all? In the library of Earth's history, there are missing books. All were written in rock that is now gone. The greatest example of "gone ...

The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell scientists about past environments, much like pages in an encyclopedia. Except this reference book has more pages missing than it ...