More than 20 years ago, geologist Harry Green, now a distinguished professor of the graduate division at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues discovered a high-pressure failure ...

Geologists, or geoscientists, study the makeup of the physical earth and processes of growth and decay to learn about the past and make inferences about the future. They work in both private and ...

When geologist Preston Jordan was first hired at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1990, his assignment was to study the paleoseismology of the Hayward Fault, which lies to the west of the lab ...

Earlier this month, Jason P. Briner and a group of geology students trekked across northern Batavia to delve into glacial deposits. Yes, Western New York and all of Canada once hunkered down beneath ...

It's appealing to think that a geologist spends most of their time scouring remote landscapes with a rock hammer and a magnifying glass, but in reality they spend more time in a laboratory than a Land ...

Geologists say they need to go a mile beneath Earth's surface to understand how groundwater flows and look for life that thrives under extreme conditions. Physicists say an underground detector is the ...

A rare visit to the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, where Japanese researchers are testing options for storing radioactive waste.

Geologists have shown how deep earthquakes can be simulated in the laboratory. The experiments were performed using a new type of apparatus that uses synchrotron X-rays. More than 20 years ago, ...