Across Earth’s surface, there are places that feel like they were designed to annoy geologists. The rocks are real, the measurements are solid, the dating is careful – and yet the stories those formations tell do not quite line up with the scripts in our textbooks. In the past few decades, better satellites, sharper ...
They rise out of deserts, glow beneath the oceans, and twist into shapes that seem to mock everything geology textbooks promise about order and predictability. Around the world, a handful of rock formations continue to baffle researchers, refusing to fit neatly into known processes of erosion, uplift, and volcanism. In some cases, the physics ...
Think about the last time you felt the ground beneath your feet and wondered about the incredible forces shaping our planet. Every pebble, every mountain range, and every earthquake tells a story that stretches back billions of years. You might be surprised to learn that the very rock you’re standing on has traveled thousands of ...
