Just 30 minutes west, Pinery Provincial Park offers 21 square kilometres of rare oak savannah and rolling dunes, 10 ...

While the molten and partially molten material that make igneous rocks tend to wipe away the traces of ancient organisms, the temperatures and pressures producing metamorphic rocks typically ...

The apparent fossils were uncovered in the quartz layers of the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB). These are some of the oldest known sedimentary rocks on the planet, identified by team member ...

The extent and importance of trace fossils preserved in clastic beachrock from the southern section of the Yallahs Salt Ponds on the SE coast of Jamaica are described. The beachrock contains a seaward ...

Discovered in Greenland and said to be 3.7 billion years old, what were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study.

Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference: Grazhdankin et al. Carbonate-hosted Avalon-type fossils in arctic Siberia. Geology, 2008; 36 (10): 803 DOI: 10.1130/G24946A.1 ...

A classification of organic particles based upon their degradational state and biological origin is outlined for use in palynological analysis. The classification has been used in various forms since ...