“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Sedimentary layers contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over millennia. Researchers have been working ...

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name ...

The Malvern Hills are some of the oldest and hardest rocks in the country. Find out more of the origins of the hills. See our picture gallery of Gullet Quarry and the rock strata around it. To ...

This week's Friday Field Photo is from Permian strata of the Karoo Basin in South Africa. This outcrop displays some spectacular micro-faulting. The alternating lighter and darker colored layers ...