The geological record tells us that many of those explorers who saw a desert arrived in drought years.

But collectively we will have rewritten the geological record, and as the author concludes, 'it would be immortality cruelly won'.

Researchers believe that it may become a permanent part of the planet's geological record.

Of the many rhythmites found in the geological record, varves are among the most important and illuminating to studies of past climate change.

The enhanced classification of artificial ground as a tool to investigate and represent anthropogenic processes in the recent geological record.