A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

A further issue is that, unlike most of the other 70-plus golden spike sites that define the many geologic time periods, the nine candidates in the running to mark the start of the Anthropocene ...

Evans thought that there would be great difficulty in estimating geological periods from the variations between the axis of figure and the axis of rotation, inasmuch as at no given time could they ...

Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. They propose we have moved from the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age to the ...

The heyday of dinosaurs, the Jurassic era saw Earth’s climate change from hot and dry to humid and subtropical. The Jurassic ...

The heyday of dinosaurs, the Jurassic era saw Earth’s climate change from hot and dry to humid and subtropical.

The reason geologists didn’t declare the Anthropocene the start of a bigger and more important time measurement, such as a period, is because the current Quaternary Period, which began nearly 2. ...

The research, published in Nature Geoscience, demonstrates that deltas are large stores of the planet's carbon and, therefore, important climate regulators over geological time periods.

Top Story ISU professor’s research pinpoints potential site that could indicate new geological time period influenced by humans ...

The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.