York County residents often travel somewhere in the world to visit a well-known locality. These locations are often natural exposures of rocks or maybe a combination of the actions of “Mother Nature” ...

Even with modern technology and research involved in today’s studies, there are still several debatable pieces of geology associated with our region. I would like to address one of these pieces in ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31. During the Proterozoic Eon—2.5 billion years to 543 million years ago—the sun ...

Researchers have discovered microdiamonds in the Nishisonogi metamorphic rock formation in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Microdiamonds in metamorphic rocks are important minerals because they form in ...

Dwayne Johnson is a big Hollywood star who has been going by the name “The Rock” ever since his wrestling days. He’s been known to the world as The Rock for a long time, so it’s no surprise that a ...

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