Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...

California has no shortage of geological marvels, many tucked within one of the state’s national parks. But to view a fossilized, dry waterfall formed hundreds of thousands of years ago from an ...

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California’s state geologist has concluded that an active earthquake fault is underneath a massive proposed skyscraper project in Hollywood, setting the stage for a huge battle at City Hall over ...

President Obama’s declaration that a large swath of Coast Range land will become the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument pleased a lot of people, including lovers of rocks. The park displays ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

In the warm afternoons of early autumn, Bay Area residents head for the Coast Range north of San Francisco. They hike, picnic and pluck flowers atop Mount Tamalpais and its sister hills, which ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — California geology officials have released an updated seismic map that includes more than 50 new fault lines discovered over the last two decades. The officials hope the map, ...

California has added interactive maps for several counties in the state, including three in the greater Bay Area, as part of its ongoing Tsunami Hazard Area project mapping the entire coastline of ...