The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme habitats on Earth. Atacama surface soil ... a mineral or rock-based substrate." Most commercially available tools for extracting DNA from soils leave a ...

Sea levels were so high during this time period, Dehler says, that rocks like the Tonto Group were deposited atop every ...

Oregon’s state geologist is pitching a novel idea of using the region’s rocky basalt layer – born of lava that flowed ...

Potash and phosphate are often tied together. After all, both are used to produce fertilizers, which are becoming ...

Chinese scientists have discovered a remarkable material in lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission. This finding ...

Layers of volcanic rock in eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created fertile soil for farming ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Layers of volcanic rock in Eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created fertile soil for farming ...

The volcanic layers in the Northwest could hold megatons of planet-warming emissions but the infrastructure needed for that ...

Officials are hoping to mitigate the longstanding Marshall Coal Fire in Boulder County by mixing cool dirt with the ...

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are composed of solidified sand injectites, which formed in a similar manner to ...