Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...

In the warm afternoons of early autumn, Bay Area residents head for the Coast Range north of San Francisco. They hike, picnic and pluck flowers atop Mount Tamalpais and its sister hills, which ...

"San Andreas Fault" explores the geological features and movements of the San Andreas Fault in California. It details how urbanization has obscured the fault's trace, yet it remains visible through ...

“Over the longer term, we expect substantial production growth to come from unconventional reservoirs such as tight sandstones and shales,” Occidental said in a regulatory filing for the spin-off. “As ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

There’s something exciting about learning how things came to look the way they do. It’s what makes tour guides so popular and why that old neighbor who’s lived on the block for decades is so ...

It takes real effort to impugn the reputation of an inanimate object, but there is a movement gaining traction in Sacramento to strip the California state rock of its lofty title for what geologists ...