Welcome to Petersen Rock Garden, a hidden Oregon treasure that feels like stepping into the fever dream of a geology-obsessed wizard. The Central Oregon landscape is already dramatic—volcanic peaks, ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometers below Earth's ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed of many thin layers that bring the flaky pastry to mind. Not only that—but ...

At the Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG), researchers are pioneering approaches to use mafic and ultramafic rocks as natural solutions to some of the most pressing challenges for a sustainable ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered hundreds of rock art engravings that were carved by humans more than 12,000 ...