AMES, Iowa – Today’s geology lesson is all about anticlines. Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial planes, hinge lines, antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines. But it ...

A rock described as a flaky pastry may sound delicate, but researchers at Tohoku University found that when they fold under compressive forces in just the right way, they can actually be strong. These ...

Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...