Hike north on the Appalachian Trail and the scenery slowly transforms. Rugged, steep ridgelines in Tennessee and Virginia ...

A study published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience from a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Vermont and Purdue University provides geochronological ...

👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s school science experiment here! Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for fun way to explore weathering and geology, try making these erosion labs! Be ...

Physical geography and environmental geoscience encompass the study of Earth’s surface and the dynamic interactions among its spheres—the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere.

June 12 (UPI) --What controls the upper limits of a mountain or mountain range's height? According to a new study, it's not weathering and erosion, as many geoscientists assumed. New analysis of ...

The Earth is getting hotter and consequences have been made manifest this summer around the world. Looking back in geological history, global warming events are not uncommon: Around 56 million years ...

University of California/Santa Cruz, M.S., Earth Sciences, 1995 University of California/Santa Cruz, Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 1998 Geomorphology, hydrology, landscape evolution, human influence on the ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that squeezes ...

The Apennines in Central Italy: The CO 2 balance for a relatively young mountain range was measured here. The photo shows a nature reserve located in the Lazio region. Groundwater flows through the ...

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower global temperatures? Researchers study global warming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers. The Earth is getting hotter and ...