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Lowly cornstarch, plus the ingenuity of a physicist, a mathematician, and a graduate student, find the link between the drying time of basalt and its column-height.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park contains unique geologic features. The park's caves were formed atypically by sulfuric acid. The park's mountains include marine fossils.

Roses have developed most recently in the last 200 years into the rose species known today; however, their origins can be traced back much further back in time.

Foremost geologist of his day, Charles Lyell's highly popular principles of geology had a huge influence on Charles Darwin.

Along with all the archeological questions of why or how Stonehenge exists is the geological question of where the rocks came from.

Although it's not the biggest event, the mysteriousness of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) extinction gets the most attention from the public, media and even scientists.

Charles Darwin knew that the natural instinct of honey bees to build beautiful and intricate hexagonal wax honeycombs could be explained by natural selection.