A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...

In 2002, flood waters from Canyon Lake dam reservoir in central Texas were diverted into an emergency spillway at nearly 200 times the normal flow rate. The resulting flood event, which lasted for six ...

A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, a new study has found. While many Americans are familiar with the Grand Canyon’s beauty and uniqueness, they may not be aware of the story ...

A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. Can you believe that in ...

The road snakes deeply into Silverado Canyon, past remote clusters of homes and live oaks until it dead-ends at a parking lot seemingly at the foot of Santiago Peak. It’s a wall of a mountain, and ...

Introducing the Grand Canyon / Stanley S. Beus, Michael Morales -- Precambrian crystalline core / R. S. Babcock -- Grand Canyon Supergroup : Unkar group / J. D. Hendricks, G. M. Stevenson -- Grand ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from an area just west of Death Valley called Darwin Canyon. As you can see, there is a sharp, angular contact between two sedimentary formations -- an angular ...

Anyone who enjoys whitewater rafting in places like the Colorado River owes a debt of gratitude to the enormous boulders that create the foaming undulation known as rapids, and new research appears to ...

A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. The newly named rock layer ...

Exploring the best slot canyons in the Southwest is one of my favorite things and has led to some incredible hiking experiences. Truly, these are some of the most visually stunning and geologically ...

The Grand Canyon may seem to be a simple case of "river carves rock," but to geologists, its formation is still puzzling. Ira Flatow and guests... Solving The Riddle Of The Grand Canyon's Formation ...