There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

Geological engineers bridge the gap between geology and civil engineering, ensuring safe, sustainable interactions with the Earth through tasks like infrastructure design, resource exploration, ...

Arizona’s Meteor Crater, a timeless scar from a cosmic collision 50,000 years ago, continues to unveil its mysteries, reshaping our understanding of Earth’s geological past. Recent studies underscore ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

A peculiar magnetic anomaly detected beneath the Northern Territory suggests the presence of unknown rock formations. Advanced airborne magnetic surveys revealed this anomaly, distinct from ...

Understand and safely manage the Earth, its resources, and natural hazards. Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences offers four undergraduate degrees—applied geophysics, geology, geological ...

The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval. The Working Group on the ...

Few issues play so central a role in the public acceptance of nuclear technologies as the management and disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste. In the current climate, geological repositories ...

As mining operations work to boost efficiency and reduce operational risks, the ability to understand rock conditions quickly and accurately has become critical.

The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) dedicated in his textbook "De re metallica" (1556) an entire chapter to the distribution of valuable rocks in earth's crust. The written ...