One early morning in Tokyo, in 2005, anthropologist Hugh Raffles was shaken awake by an earthquake. His hotel room overlooked an office building; through long windows, he saw people standing frozen in ...

The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell scientists about past environments, much like pages in an encyclopedia. Except this reference book has more pages missing than it ...

A team of geologists is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia -- the Great Unconformity. A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics include the mid-Atlantic coastal plain; the Archean Pilbara Craton of Western Australia; the “Great pre-Unconformity”; spontaneous reheating of crystallizing lava; ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Population studies of planktonic foraminifers in the Gulf of Mexico Site 94 and E67-128 and classical Gulf Coast sections in Alabama and ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from an area just west of Death Valley called Darwin Canyon. As you can see, there is a sharp, angular contact between two sedimentary formations -- an angular ...

A huge section of Earth’s fossil history is missing. Scientists know where it should be, but it’s not there. And now they think they know where it went. All over the planet, there are huge gaps in the ...

A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia. Researchers have spotted that phenomenon, called the "Great ...