According to a 2013 U.S. Geological Survey study, the basalt beneath Oregon and Washington could hold more than 14,000 ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Underneath Iceland's sometimes snowy surface is a boiling cauldron of superheated magma. It's a bane to residents who are at ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

Millions of cubic miles of lava erupted over some 600,000 years ... Their key evidence: the alignments of magnetic particles in the rocks that recorded the past drifting of Earth's magnetic ...

Anan early Cretaceous formation in northeast China, it holds some of the best preserved fossils on Earth and is a treasure ...

Some of the most famous and best-preserved dinosaur fossils were thought to have been suspended in time due to a massive ...

The extinction has also been tied to the eruptions of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, a large area made up of magma ...

Red sediments in many locations around the world contain Triassic-era fossils. The white band on ... Millions of cubic miles of lava erupted over some 600,000 years, separating what are now ...

a large area made up of magma rock, known as CAMP. Below the layers of lava from these eruptions, archaeologists have uncovered Triassic-era fossils, including those of strange tree lizards and ...

Aided by more than $11 million in grant funding, researchers plan to build a huge drilling rig and determine whether carbon ...