In 1820 the Italian engineer Count Giuseppe Marzari-Pencati (1779-1836) published a short article about the stratigraphic succession found near the small village of Predazzo. In the 18th and 19th ...

Maine is well-known for its hard rock. Not the Metallica kind. The kind used to build post offices, customs houses and monuments. Prisons, office buildings, churches and more recently, kitchen ...

Last month, Fred Prince, a biology professor at Plymouth State University, found and confirmed the first woolly mammoth tooth on land in New Hampshire. So the question is, what took so long - ...

John Muir once described the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range of Central California as the "Range of Light" because of the reflected sunlight that always seems to glisten from the many majestic peaks. He ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in China’s ...

Discover Dartmoor, a land of beauty and mystery with its famous tors and breathtaking views that inspire legends and myths.