Closely related to the history of sedimentary rocks are the age of the Earth as an astronomical body and the evolution of the planetary system. We shall see from the discussion of the following ...
Although the movie’s participants refuse to disclose classified information, some of their statements elicited “audible gasps ...
"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...
Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...
Regular changes in Earth's orbit and axial tilt may have triggered the start and end of ice ages over the past 800,000 years. | Credit: Gregory Adams/Getty Images Changes in Earth's tilt relative ...
A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...
Defined in the briefest fashion it is the geology of Lyell. Hutton had given us a “Theory of the Earth,” in its main outlines still faithful and true; and this Lyell spent his life in ...
PROF. PERRY and I had not to wait long after the publication of his article “On the Age of the Earth” (NATURE, January 3, 1895, pp. 224–227) to learn that there was no ground for the ...