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It always feels great to get back to my old stomping grounds! I grew up near this river where you can find absolutely ...
Fried pickles were undeniably one of the most sought-after foods at the festival — alongside other pickle-y goodies like ...
Rockhounding is the recreational study and collection of rocks, gems, minerals or fossils, such as fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation known as petrified wood or geodes, a rock with its ...
GeoFair, Cincinnati’s largest non-profit gem, mineral, fossil and jewelry show, is coming to the Butler County Fairground Event Center, located at 1715 Fairgrove Ave. in Hamilton. The event lasts two ...
The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve ...
We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...
China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 ...
A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.
Dr. Bill Roggenthen, a professor emeritus of geology at South Dakota Mines, has been reading the rocks at America’s Lab since ...