Many professionals expect wines grown in limestone soil to be more focused and acid-driven—but is there a reason why?

Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record ...

The team led by the University of Cambridge published their study in the journal Nature and thought that the new fossil could attest to why birds survived the mass extinction event at the end of ...

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 ...

Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

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, ...

This is a serious loss for both the state and the country. The site is deep in the forest. Despite the villagers’ best ...

The specimen in question is an exquisite fossil of a gossamer-winged butterfly from the Isle of Wight. It is the only representative of its species ever found. Discovered in the Insect Limestone at ...

Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed of English Longhorn cattle, the roughly 183-million-year-old fossils are stunningly well preserved like they were frozen in time. Contained within ...