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 ...

Yan, M. and Wang, H. (2026) Seismic Forward Modeling of the Lower Ordovician in the Northwestern Sichuan Basin. Journal of ...

There's no doubt that humans have had a powerful impact on the planet, but some scientists believe the effects are so clear and widespread that our current time period should be declared the dawn of a ...

In addition to being one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon is a living history book, revealing great geological epochs on its various strata. Now, researchers in Colorado ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

It would be called the Anthropocene. The word was coined by chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen at a conference in 2000. It denotes a new geological epoch, beginning about 200 years ago at the ...

A new study suggests that key geological markers align towards a start for the Anthropocene somewhere between 1952 to 1955, based on signals from nuclear testing and fossil fuel burning. An ...

The idea was born in Mexico, in the year 2000. It was pure improvisation by Paul Crutzen, one of the world's most respected scientists. The Dutch scholar was widely known for arguing that all-out ...