STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...

March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 54. Geologic and Environmental Dynamics of the Pontchartrain Basin (FALL 2009), pp. 12-22 (11 pages) The Pontchartrain Basin extends over 44,000 km² from ...

Earth Sciences History, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2019), pp. 371-387 (17 pages) During the second half of the nineteenth century, geology was added as a topic taught at schools of higher education in central ...

Whenever I start a multi-day geology class, I start with a brief “History of Geology” section. Covering what folks believed 400 years ago is a good way to set the tone for what we will be studying the ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

No more appropriate writer could have been found for this condensed history of geology than the author of the recently published “History of the Geological Society of London.” The personal touches ...

Geology studies students gain a deep understanding and appreciation of the Earth: its resources, structure, processes and history. Our faculty and staff research minerals, sediments, rocks, fossils, ...