The geologic rock unit was deposited 50 to ... There were no Ortiz Mountains or Sandia Mountains yet, and rivers deposited sediments across a basin from the Sangre de Cristos down to the ...

The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic intrusions and volcanic eruptions.

Legislation would expand the Santa Monica Mountains recreation area by roughly 118,000 acres, but the effort comes as the ...

The final containers of legacy transuranic waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina are being prepared for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Over the last 26 years, ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

At Hanging Mountain, south of the Sandisfield village of New Boston, rocks for years proved the most profitable product of ...

For decades, the enigmatic “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park have captivated scientists and ...

Basu said there are dozens and dozens of fault lines in the state. In fact, the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources said that there are more than 160 quaternary faults — or faults that have ...

The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If you’ve stepped outside your house in Albuquerque on Saturday, you probably noticed the Sandia Mountains covered in haze. The City of Albuquerque published a ...