BYU geology professors Lehi Hintze and Bart Kowallis make Utah’s geology accessible with the third edition of “Geologic History of Utah.” The book serves as a field guide to Utah’s rocks that can be ...

Geology and Landscapes of America’s National Parks Oxford University Press (Dec. 1, 2021) By David Osleger, professor of teaching, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences WHAT: The author in ...

There’s something exciting about learning how things came to look the way they do. It’s what makes tour guides so popular and why that old neighbor who’s lived on the block for decades is so ...

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If you’re driving from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, you might not be aware you’re passing by billions of years of geologic time. The southernmost Rocky Mountains are visible to the northeast, their peaks ...

Imagine a world where pigeon-sized dragonflies soar above spiders with half-meter-long legs, where 2-meter-long millipedes slither and 20-kilogram scorpions hunt. About 300 million years ago, such ...

When I heard about the Owyhee River from my husband, Ken Giles, I wanted to go there. The geology of the place in Southeast Oregon sounded fascinating and the river seemed friendly — few rapids, sandy ...

A new book and exhibition explain how geology has taken us from an unchanging Earth to the knowledge that the rocks are shifting under our feet IN 1650, James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, ...

Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...

THE STORY OF GEOLOGY—Allan L. Benson—Cosmopolitan ($4).The vast rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the ...