It took nearly 25 years to protect the 500,000 acres of land in Southern Nevada known as Avi Kwa Ame with a national monument designation. Taylor Patterson hopes the next project, a proposed ...

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 new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers sheds light on one of the world’s great geological mysteries: a missing chapter of the earth’s rock record known as the Great Unconformity ...

Martite, a rusted form of magnetite, preserves the moment rocks were exposed to surface air and water—becoming nature’s forensic timestamp for deep time events. These rusted rocks tell when buried ...

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 ...

Scientists have known for some time that there is a huge gap in our planet’s geological record, known as the ‘Great Unconformity’, but had been unable to explain why. The Great Unconformity starts ...