Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our ...

What traces will humanity leave embedded in ancient strata of rock for future paleontologists ... the fossils of the future and our everlasting geological signature. This interview has been ...

This is the principle of cross-cutting relationships. The principle states that any geologic features that cut across strata must have formed after the rocks they cut through (Figures 2 and 3).

“When you start naming geologic-time terms, you need to define what exactly the boundary is, where it appears in the rock strata,” says Whitney Autin, a stratigrapher at the SUNY College of ...

A branch of geology and earth sciences, stratigraphy is a field of study that deals with the arrangement and succession of strata (layers) in the Earth. Additionally, it involves the origin ...

Smith's colourful and sophisticated geological map was based on his astute observation that rock layers (strata) could be identified by the fossils they contain. He noticed that the layers always ...

A University of Tokyo research team says it has succeeded in collecting microorganisms from two-billion-year-old geological strata in South Africa that may still be alive. If confirmed ...

Working through fits of funding over the next two decades, they eventually discovered the site had been occupied for 11,000 years and was preserved throughout 15 feet of geological strata.

"Our team has analyzed all the relevant fossils and geological strata of the Triassic in southern Germany and other parts of ...

This is the principle of cross-cutting relationships. The principle states that any geologic features that cut across strata must have formed after the rocks they cut through (Figures 2 and 3).