In southeastern Brazil, an unusual occurrence of conglomerate and coarse-grained sandstone ... clastic supply derived from older siliciclastic successions in the source area, reflecting multicycle ...

The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

Hiking to Sandstone Peak, the highest point in the Santa Monica Mountains, offers panoramic views of rolling hills and the craggy rock faces along the coast. At 3,111 feet above sea level ...

Oak Park is a 9-acre park situated on one of the many sedimentary rock ledges popular ... an up-close view of the beautiful ledges made of sandstone, limestone, shale and coal.

"This discovery confirms the largest integrated clastic oilfield in the northern South China Sea in terms of original oil in place, challenging traditional geological assumptions and demonstrating ...

Fragments of palaeo-landscapes preserved buried under the volcanic and sedimentary deposits with fossil fauna and flora allow to reconstruct the high-mountain ecosystem of the Ethiopian Highlands ...

The Hauck team is stripping the historic but damaged former church of its exterior red sandstone layer, stone by stone, packing the stones onto pallets, and driving them to Washington. There, they ...

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