The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Menu Local Geology History, Resources ... The great number of fossils shows the nature of life in benthic communities in the Ordovician ocean. The layers of Ohio's bedrock are slightly tilted, with ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils ... Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

The lake bottom is stacked with thin layers of clay called varves that provide a geological record of the past 70,000 years, much like growth rings of a tree. Mud continued to accumulate there ...

The department’s new approach will let operators produce from layers that have a greater difference in pressure.

John Wesley Powell A professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan, John Wesley Powell had more than just a passing interest in the layers upon layers of rocks exposed by the Colorado River.