Brad Carr, a UW associate research scientist in geology and geophysics, uses the Geoprobe instrument to sample the subsurface in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada in California. Carr ...

Sandstone landscapes, with their intricate forms and textures, offer an excellent window into the processes that shape our planet’s surface. The evolution of these formations is governed by a ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Geophysical surveys reveal subsurface weathering indirectly. The arrival of seismic energy, generated by a sledge hammer and recorded by geophones, is used to calculate seismic velocities. Slower ...

The continental cratons are the most long-lived, almost permanent megafeatures of the Planet Earth, and thus preserve (in favourable places) veneers of ancient duricrusted paleosols and shallow marine ...

Research led by the University of Wyoming shows that physical weathering is far more important than previously recognized in the breakdown of rock in mountain landscapes. Because it is difficult to ...