Caption This educational poster shows how geological and biological processes have together shaped Earth's environment during its 4.6 billion-year history.

Lucia Perez Diaz always needed a creative outlet. She studied music from an early age and played the piano through her teens.

Tear down the middle school geology posters: We have an update. A team at Australian National University (ANU) has found evidence of a new fifth layer to the planet, an iron-nickel alloy ball in ...

On Earth, metamorphism usually happens slowly and deep underground. The heat and pressure at depth transform rocks and minerals, which is how graphite becomes diamond and limestone becomes marble.

Spherule beds were also correlated with Earth's passage into the Milky Way's dense spiral arms between around 3.3 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, when the planet was just over 1 billion years old.

The Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react to climate change to how molten lava ...