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 ...

Nestled in the heart of the UC Davis Arboretum lies the California Rock Garden, an educational haven designed to showcase the state's diverse geology. Developed by the Department of Earth and ...

"San Andreas Fault" explores the geological features and movements of the San Andreas Fault in California. It details how urbanization has obscured the fault's trace, yet it remains visible through ...

“Over the longer term, we expect substantial production growth to come from unconventional reservoirs such as tight sandstones and shales,” Occidental said in a regulatory filing for the spin-off. “As ...

FOLLOWING the earlier studies of the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the mining districts of California, there has more recently been an immense amount of detailed and accurate work devoted to ...

Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

SAN JOSE — California geology officials have released an updated seismic map that they hope will improve earthquake preparedness and construction decisions. The map, which had not been updated since ...

California is one of the newest parts of North America. Not long ago—just a couple hundred million years ago, which isn’t much on a geologic timescale—North America ended, roughly, in Nevada. To the ...