Twenty Million Years of Exposed Rock
This article has been republished with permission from the Niagara Peninsula Aspiring Geopark website. Read the original article here. The Balls Falls Conservation Area, located prominently on the edge of…
How the Earth’s last supercontinent broke apart to form the world we have today
Author: Alexander Lewis Peace, Assistant Professor (Structural Geology), McMaster UniversityThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Pangaea was the Earth’s latest supercontinent — a vast…
What happens to lands after mines finish production in Ontario?
Have you ever wondered about mining? How and why we mine and what happens to a mine when the valuable minerals that it contains are depleted? Did you know that…
Where are the dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs were some of the biggest animals to ever roam our planet. This massively large group of reptiles were around from the late Triassic Period (approximately 230 million years ago)…
Geo Q&A: What are ice volcanoes?
If you’ve ever walked on the shoreline of one of the Great Lakes in the winter, you might have seen some inconspicuous mounds of ice on the water. These mounds,…
Xueya Lu: mineral carbonation using mine waste
Meet Xueya Lu, one of the inaugural recipients of an APGO Education Foundation Scholarship. Xueya is a Ph.D. student studying carbon capture as a method for mitigating climate change.
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Curling Stones: A Pilgrimage of Granitic Proportions
What do geology and curling have in common? Find out in this article about Derek Leung's fascinating research and travels in Scotland.
Rock, Water and Ice: The Journey of Niagara Falls
Learn about the formation of Niagara Falls in this journey that spans 440 million years.
