Scientists discover all stalagmites growing from cave floors follow a mathematical rule that explains how these mineral ...

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature's most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...

William Christian Krumbein (1902–1979) is remembered by one of his former graduate students for his remarkable discipline, productivity, and dedication to his students. Krumbein published extensively ...

Even teachers spend time in summer school. Teachers spent time this week traipsing through Garden of the Gods, touching rocks and learning about such things as alluvial fans, ancestral Rocky Mountains ...

THIS handy republication of the lighter scientific utterances of Lord Kelvin was begun in 1889, with the volume reviewed in NATURE (vol. xl. p. 433), was continued in 1891, with a volume on ...