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 ...

One of the things I love to do on this blog is share photographs of geology I've taken while doing field work, attending field trips/conferences, or simply traveling. I started this series of sharing ...

Scientists are floating a new way to explain a geological feature called the Great Unconformity, where the record of a billion years is just missing from between the layers of rock. Or, to be more ...

A billion years is missing from the geologic record; one UC Santa Barbara scientist believes he knows where it may have gone The geologic record is exactly that: a record. The strata of rock tell ...

Recently, the journal SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences published a research by Professor Hongwei KUANG, Dr Nan PENG and Professor Yongqing LIU from the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

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 ...

Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Or any record at all? In the library of Earth's history, there are missing books. All were written in rock that is now gone. The greatest example of "gone ...

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 ...