In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...

Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Chicago Press, 2020 ($65) Strata are the ribboned horizontal layers of minerals and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Russian scholar Mikhail Vasil´evich ...

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A rare early copy of William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, previously thought lost, has been uncovered by Geological Society archivists. The new map has been digitised and made ...