New research from the University of Colorado Boulder provides evidence supporting the 'Snowball Earth' theory. Geologists ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Granitic rock forms at depth, and comprises approximately two-thirds of the Earth's crust ... Figure 1: Surface waters interact with underlying bedrock, causing it to crumble into disaggregated ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

The plume of broiling rock rising from deep inside the Earth has broken through the thin ... But the stability of the ice depends in part on the bedrock's temperature. The warmer the base, the ...

As the asteroid or comet struck Earth, it vaporized some of the planet’s bedrock, pushing fine dust particles into the stratosphere, obscuring the sun, preventing planets from photosynthesizing ...

The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica ... of the White Continent that reveals the shape of the bedrock under the ice sheet in unprecedented detail.