This semester's classes are GE 1200, GE 2000, GE 2020, and GE 2300. Introduction to materials and processes that shape the earth we live on. Lecture and laboratories acquaint students with minerals, ...

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should ...

GE 3050 - Structural Geology Rock structures and regional settings resulting from the application of deforming forces, including the geometry, origin, and mechanics of folds, foliations, lineations, ...

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers have provided evidence that ...

The Bermuda Triangle, long famous for unexplained disappearances, has revealed an even stranger secret. Scientists have discovered a colossal rock layer beneath the island of Bermuda, 12.4 miles thick ...

Doug winds his way through the sculpted red rock formations of Utah and Arizona. In red rock country the Earth’s crust has been pushed up by the collision of two tectonic plates, lifting the land in ...

Anywhere from 85-120 million years ago magma from an arc of erupting volcanoes solidified deep within the Earth’s crust and began the process of creating the Sierra Nevada. Tectonic plates began to ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Wave Rock is a well-known ...

On the coast of Northern Ireland sits an expanse of polygonal rock columns known as the Giant's Causeway. The natural formation has been the center of myths as well as geologic research for years, but ...