Reston, VA – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) announced that they have developed an updated geologic time scale and color scheme for use in ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

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 ...

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time. By Raymond Zhong For almost 15 years, a panel of ...

Geological time, generally considered as a system of eras, periods and epochs materialized in rock strata, might actually follow a simple and unifying model. Indeed, a new study led by physicist Shaun ...

This geologic time spiral cake — which was baked by a group of geologists at Oxford University — took 32 eggs, 3 kg of marzipan, 7 people, 30 hours of labor, and several billion years of evolution.

A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet. By Raymond Zhong The Triassic was the dawn ...