Earth Science Articles

Just a week ago here there was mention about the shootout in broad daylight on a Schenectady street being a first. Well, it only took the city's thuggery two days to come up with an even more astounding encore featuring ...

The question involved a marble and a dome: If you let the marble roll down the curve of the dome, at what point does it fall away into space? This lab problem stumped Dryden High School physics teacher Mike ...

Situated at the centre of three converging and colliding major tectonic plates - India-Australia, Eurasia, Pacific - the Banda arc comprises young oceanic crust enclosed by a volcanic inner arc, outer arc islands and a ...

Students will know that millions of years ago, the continents were joined together in a supercontinent known as Pangaea, and have gradually moved over time. Show students a map of the world, and ask if they ...

Meet Brian Romans, 36, a research geologist who works in the energy industry and blogs independently at Clastic Detritus ( clasticdetritus.com ). Catch his tweets at @clasticdetritus. Questions and answers ...