Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...