Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. River full of debris Getty Images/panaramka Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass ...

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

An international group of researchers is working to define a new geological era that will more accurately describe the current state of the planet. Called the Anthropocene era, this geological unit ...

These records, housed at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, are said to contain decades of geological surveys, maps, drill logs and exploration reports.

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...