Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio At the Limper Geology Museum, you will be able to explore a large collection of local rock, mineral, and ...

Spectacular ‘Wonderchicken’ Fossil Found Hidden in a Limestone Quarry, Helps Decode the Origin of Birds A tiny creature that was half the size of a mallard was found in rocks that were dated back to ...

The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the dissolved calcium carbonate in the seawater to form internal skeletons ...

Researchers are looking into whether sites in Osage and Kay Counties can be used for permanent underground carbon storage.

Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment build up on top of one another, they create a physical timeline. The oldest layers, ...

The most abundant limestone in the Cincinnatian Series is a coarse grained rock with poorly sorted grains consisting of 30% to 40% fossil allochems surrounded by 60% to 70% matrix developed from what ...

A pretty little seaside town on the Dorset -Devon border has stunning fossil-filled cliffs and an array of beaches to pick ...

The heat comes from being near to magma. Limestone is a soft grey rock with visible layers. It often contains fossils and it reacts with acid giving off a gas. These features classify limestone as ...

PhD student Amelia Penny spotted its sharp-toothed jaw in a layer of ancient limestone on ... had to extract the rock slab entombing the fossil - a painstaking process and noisy process racing ...