THE manuscript of this book was left by the late Prof. Green in a somewhat unfinished condition, and the editor was asked to prepare it for the press. The book is described in the preface as being ...

Even teachers spend time in summer school. Teachers spent time this week traipsing through Garden of the Gods, touching rocks and learning about such things as alluvial fans, ancestral Rocky Mountains ...

I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...

Re the April 1 letter, “Gore’s use of Pangaea weakens case”: I learned about the supercontinents, Pangaea and Gondwana, in my geology classes at the University of Kentucky in 1946. Gondwana later ...

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PHILOMATH, Ore. (AP) - Three miles up the Marys Peak Road, where the roadbed cuts through a ridge of dark volcanic rock, Bob Lillie is giving a geology lesson to a group of about 16 people. Clad in a ...

Some years past when I was pulling weeds in my yard, I unearthed a dirt-covered rock. This is not unusual or really worth mentioning except that when I brushed off the dirt, one side unveiled a dark, ...

WEST GOSHEN – West Chester University students received a hands-on geology lesson this week. As part of a collaboration, about 30 students and approximately 35 seasoned professionals watched side by ...