On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs. “So you see all of these black rocks that are on either side of us, on either side of the river? Those are basalts.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - In a win for both farmers and environmentalists, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have successfully quantified the CO2-reduction potential of ...

The geology of Washington state varies wildly from region to region, belying the great medley of events -- ancient and more recent, catastrophic and systematic-- that formed it. And in no part of the ...

Runners, bicyclists and walkers in Columbia Park have probably noticed a couple 1,500-pound basalt slabs installed along the path in recent days. Those are part of one local teacher’s decades-long ...

On a Midwestern farm growing corn and beans, a tractor will soon spread 1,543 tons of rock dust over 140 acres. The goal: fighting climate change. Over the next two growing seasons, the dust—crushed ...

Geologist Ryan Clark points out a map Friday of Iowa’s geology at the Iowa Geological Survey in Coralville. The Iowa Geological Survey, based at the University of Iowa, has received $11.3 million in ...

As Nichole Schwend weaves through the basalt rocks that litter Celebration Park, she points to faint engravings on the dark desert rocks and asks visitors what they see. One carving near the ...

On a shelf behind me is a naturally laminated cobble about the size of a door knob. It's a beauty, a sedimentary mudstone geologists call argillite, in which the "g" is pronounced as a "j." I plucked ...

A few small orange flags stuck in the dirt are the only markers that distinguish Kwesi Joseph’s kale and collard plantings from the rows of other lush vegetables at the Hands and Heart Community ...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. – Lake Tahoe served as both a classroom and a time machine for Western Nevada College geology students recently, as Dr. Winnie Kortemeier, Professor of Geosciences, led three of her ...