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NASA’s hidden Rainbow Canyon, millions of years in one frame

Cedar Breaks, seen 10,000 feet above, is not a canyon, but the slice of a memory of the earth. The high rim of Cedar Breaks National Monument, southwestern Utah, in a single Landsat 9 view opens into ...

How a persistent chemical enters our surface waters: Modeling TFA formation and distribution in the atmosphere

PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are not called "forever chemicals" for nothing. These ...
The Print

What is being mined—legally and illegally—in the Aravallis

The Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee observed in 2018 that 25 per cent of Rajasthan’s Aravallis had been lost to ...
Frontiers

Response of geochemical characteristics of organic-rich shale of Longmaxi formation to the sedimentary environment in the Neijiang-Rongchang area, Sichuan Basin, China

1 Chongqing Gas Field, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chongqing, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, ...
earth

New type of Earth rock is created by human industrial waste and forms in just 40 years

A discarded can tab, locked inside a new type of rock on England’s Cumbrian coast, tells a startling story about what happens when industry and nature collide. Geologists have confirmed that steel ...
The Conversation

The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old

Hanika Rizo receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Jonathan O’Neil receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ...
The Denver Post

New dinosaur unearthed from Colorado rock formation, more discoveries possible

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two scientists spent months debunking a long-standing dinosaur classification. Then, they used dinosaur bones discovered in Colorado, previously ...
Forbes

Humanity’s Trash Is Turning To Rock

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. May 30, 2025, 01:36pm EDT May 30, 2025, 01:59pm EDT Trash and ...
IFLScience

Human Trash Is Expediting Rock Formation, From Millions Of Years To Just 35

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...
MLive

Did you see this iconic cliff before it tumbled into Lake Superior? Pictured Rocks looks back at the Munising formation.

MUNISING, MI -- Nearly two decades ago, Michigan’s iconic Pictured Rocks changed its silhouette forever. On the morning of April 13, 2006 a fishermen witnessed the northeast turret of Miners Castle ...
SciTech Daily

Shocking Spherules on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds a Rock That Defies Explanation

This image from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, a fusion-processed SuperCam Remote Micro Imager (RMI) mosaic, shows part of the “St. Pauls Bay” target, acquired from the lower Witch Hazel Hill area of ...