Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jan 08, 2025, 02:54pm EST Jan 09, 2025, 12:23pm EST A new ...

An unparalleled study by Brenda Beitler Bowen, a Central Michigan University postdoctoral research associate, on salty acid lakes in Australia provides a rare, modern analogy to ancient geologic ...

Scientists say they've extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have been placed at approximately 4.16 billion years old during the Hadean-age ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is using an innovative X-ray imaging approach to reveal how compression reshapes the tiny spaces and stresses within sandstone—findings that could predict how this ...