In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Geology is about much more than rocks. It is about the study of the ... 2 and Nuna (Columbia), as well as the geology of the Precambrian era. Earth scientists in the department also closely ...

Paleontologists now know that the Precambrian actually did swarm with ... to the ocean and becomes sedimentary rock. And even those rocks, made partly from carbon that has cycled through life's ...

More extensive Precambrian finds, particularly those discovered in Australia's Ediacara Gorge in rocks 565 million years old, include fossil imprints of creatures that resemble everything from ...

Situated within the Rocky Mountains, our Department provides students with diverse opportunities for field studies. For example, the widespread Precambrian rocks and complexity of local structural ...