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New integrative stratigraphy and timescales for 13 geological periods in China from the Ediacaran to the Quaternary have recently been published in a special issue of SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. The ...

PALAIOS content emphasizes the impact of life on Earth's history. Founded in 1986, it is a bimonthly journal which disseminates information to an international spectrum of geologists and biologists ...

Our interest group is engaged in a range of interesting research programs in petroleum geology, reservoir geology and geophysics, sedimentology and diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary ...

Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

“What the fuck is the Meghalayan?” asked Ben van der Pluijm, a geologist. Whatever the Meghalayan is, we live in it now. Earlier this week, the International Commission on Stratigraphy announced that ...

The Anthropocene is one of those rare scientific terms that has entered the public consciousness, which is ironic, given that geologists have not yet fully defined it. As Ian Randall discovers, the ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth's history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...