But you’d be wrong. In a new report published this spring in the Geological Society of America journal Geosphere, a UNLV-led research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a ...

The minerals found in different kinds of bedrock are often commercially valuable, and the chemical nature of bedrock in turn influences soil structure and chemistry. Dolostone, for example, is a ...

As shown in the picture below, the thrust fault is an exposure of two different types of bedrock: the sandy-colored Dunham Dolostone or top of the dark grey Iberville Shale. The reason this feature is ...

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the ...

Rock formations are significant for geologists, and formation names help keep track of time and events in Earth history. A new name – Frenchman Mountain Dolostone – has been added to a key interval of ...

In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined lithium isotope compositions in the Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone to test the ...