/article/origin-coal
Stuart E. Nevins, M.S. - Accumulated, compacted and altered plants form a sedimentary rock called coal. It is not only a resource of great economic importance, but a rock of intense fascination to the student of earth history. Although coal forms less than one percent of...

/article/continental-drift-plate-tectonics-bible
Stuart E. Nevins, M.S. - Twenty years ago geologists were certain that the data correlated perfectly with the then-reigning model of stationary continents. The handful of geologists who promoted the notion of continental drift were accused of indulging in pseudoscientific...

/article/planet-earth-plan-or-accident
Stuart E. Nevins, M.S. - From where did the earth come? By what process was it constructed? Did an ever-seeing Intelligence plan and direct the creation of our planet? Or, did the earth evolve by unguided chance processes without an overseeing plan? A person's answers to...

/article/interpreting-earth-history
Stuart E. Nevins, M.S. - Historical geology is the field of study which seeks to decipher the clues and records bearing on the earth's history. Since the historical geologist cannot observe the history he attempts to interpret (he cannot relive ancient times), scientific...