geology

While the Triad area is part of the foothills, we do have a mountain range we can call our own. It includes the landmark Pilot Knob. For this week's Carolina Curious, WFDD's Paul Garber was wondering: How did the Sauratown Mountains form here, and what sets them apart?

Members of the North Carolina Geological Survey visited the site of the recent earthquake that hit near Sparta and was felt as far north as Baltimore and…

An Appalachian State University professor has used an unusual and elusive fossil to learn important facts about the geological history of our region.

When you step into mud, it kind of slurps up between your toes. What if someone found your mud-slurping footprint 15,000 years from now?Scientists have uncovered 15,000 year old fossil human footprints, with incredible, mud-slurping detail. What do they tell us about the people that lived there?

Rock, once a seafloor of mud, sand, and pebbles, towers into the sky, only to erode away, becoming a new and different seafloor, layered like pages in a book.Appalachian State University's Dr. Ellen Cowan reads these pages, most recently off the coast of Alaska. They tell the full story of geological changes on the continent, as written by glaciers over millions of years.

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