Some parts of the island chain have a 0.6 millimeter-per-year subsidence rate, but others are in a much more dire state.

Structural geology is the study of the deformation of the surface and subsurface of the Earth and other planetary bodies. This deformation reflects past changes in local and regional stress and ...

Our guide was clearly very excited about caves, geology, and local history and was a wealth of ... which was compressed into limestone by the weight of the water above it. When the sea receded, the ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is at it again, with lava from the latest eruptive episode shooting nearly 600 feet into the air. According to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

It’s one of the most iconic vistas on Kauai: Surrounded by green mountains, the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge is covered in fertile wetlands and taro farms, a remarkable habitat for rare and ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

The Kauai Police Department (KPD) confirmed that the 30-year-old pedestrian has been identified as Kailon Tyndzik from Wailua. Officials reported that Tyndzik succumbed to his injuries and died on ...

Then it goes down a mine and like, what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there’s a limestone mine. We store all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture, we will post some pictures ...

HAMMOND — The third criminal trial of former Portage Mayor James Snyder will begin Sept. 15 at the federal courthouse in Hammond. U.S. District Judge Gretchen Lund set the trial date Wednesday ...

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...

Formed during the ice age and discovered in the early 1900s, this fascinating subterranean world features dramatic limestone formations ... shells and a hands-on geology lesson about how ...