This geologic time spiral cake — which was baked by a group of geologists at Oxford University — took 32 eggs, 3 kg of marzipan, 7 people, 30 hours of labor, and several billion years of ...

Have we so fundamentally and irreversibly changed the Earth that it warrants a new and official notch on the geologic time spiral?

Commenter SexyDinosaurCostume nominated the USGS visualization Geological Time Spiral, which traces out 4.5 billion years of history, giving us more detailed accounts of the periods nearest our own.

The geologic time spiral — a path to the past Design: Joseph Graham, William Newman, John Stacy Source: United States Geological Survey Year: 1975 United States Geological Survey ...

Geologists have identified a site in Canada that they say could mark a new epoch called the Anthropocene. But not everyone agrees.

The most famous artwork in Utah, Robert Smithson's Land Art masterpiece Spiral Jetty, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. A Utah State University graduate student got the ...

When a new time division is approved, as in the case of the Meghalayan, ICS sets the official description and adds that new detail to the geologic time scale.

Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history.