geology

We started 2016 with a bang.

Officially, the world is still in the Holocene Epoch, a geology-related category spanning roughly from 9,700 B.C. to the present day, but geologists have toyed with a new concept in recent years, and are now taking steps to make it official.

The center of the Earth may be a lot different than you think.

“It is ... likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, that was then dismantled and dragged off to Wiltshire.” -Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson

Geologist Dr. Alexander Koltypin hypothesizes that prehistoric ruts in stone were left by heavy-duty ancient vehicles—not light chariots or wagons.

Researchers at the University of California–Santa Barbara announced Monday that they found a surprising helium-3 leak along a fault zone in the Los Angeles Basin.

The ever-burning flames of legend not only reveal the spiritual and cultural rituals of the past, but can also give clues related to modern geology and current gas seepage.

Is the Earth now spinning through the “Age of Humans?” More than a few scientists think so.

Off the coast of Cornwall, at the southern tip of the UK, on a clear day, the Isles of Scilly can be seen at some distance. Those islands, some say, are the peaks of a sunken land that was a prosperous kingdom in the days of yore.

Mysterious holes that opened in Siberia this summer had people blaming aliens, meteorites, and missiles. Scientists say it may be gas, and the same phenomenon could be at work in the Bermuda Triangle.

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed.

Decades of research on landscape formation have relied on a theory now proven false, according to Stanford scientists. The formation is not mathematically random, it has a pattern.

The Altiplano plateau in the central Andes—and most likely the entire mountain range—was formed through a series of rapid growth spurts, rather than a continuous gradual uplift, new research shows.