Geology often gets a bad rap as the boring study of rocks and minerals. I’m hear to show you otherwise. Geology is a high-octane window into Earth’s vibrant, often violent history. Every rock tells a ...

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland formed ~60 million years ago from cooling lava. The Wave in Arizona, USA, is Navajo Sandstone from the Jurassic period. Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand formed ~60 ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

The film explores the processes of weathering and sedimentation that shape the Earth's surface. It explains how rocks break down into mud and sand through natural elements, which are then carried ...

An international team of researchers unearthed the previously unknown form of basalt after drilling through the Pacific ocean floor. Peridotite is composed mostly of greenish magnesium-iron-silicate ...

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...