In 1970, Soviet scientists embarked on an ambitious quest to dig into the Earth's crust, creating the world-renowned Kola Superdeep Borehole in the remote Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Stretching 12,262 ...

It's estimated that humans have altered over half of the planet's surface, and those changes are easy to see – the ice sheets are melting, forests are shrinking and species are going extinct. People ...

Our planet is more than four billion years old – a staggering amount of time for humans to contemplate. To ease this task, experts have divided earth’s history into pieces of time, called aeons, eras, ...

The Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission(s) of ABET, www.abet.org, under the General Criteria and the Geological Engineering ...

Siccar Point has been described as the birthplace of geological science Two sites in Scotland have been included on a list of 100 internationally important geological locations Siccar Point in the ...

Humans have had such a marked impact on the earth that, in 2000, Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stormer proposed the term “anthropocene” to acknowledge the geological and ecological impact of humans. Now ...

The University of Delaware’s Department of Earth Sciences (ES) prepares students for their future by exposing them to exciting opportunities through education and research in the classroom, the ...

Boulder CO, USA – The World in a Crucible probes the inception of geology as an experimental science in order to understand early, opposed, and sometimes paradoxical perceptions about rock origin.

Welcome to the community of students who study Earth system and the processes that have changed the planet and our environment over time! Whether you are in our undergraduate or graduate program, the ...

Nature has a way of creating wonders that feel more like myths than science. One such mystery, detailed in a report by IFLScience, comes from the heart of Earth’s geological processes: rockfaces that ...