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Welcome to the mindbending Rock, where otherworldly geology is the backdrop for a heady mix of words + music during the Writers at Woody Point.

The surge and surface current slosh me around like laundry in a spin cycle. I’m scuba diving on Gadd’s Wall, a precipitous dive site in Bonne Bay, in Western Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park, that just may be one of the top dives on the Rock.

CORNER BROOK — There are numerous interesting places that professional geologists and amateur rock lovers would love to explore on the island of Newfoundland...

A team of British and Canadian scientists probing a famous fossil site in Newfoundland and Labrador has discovered traces of some of the earliest animal remains on Earth — a 579-million-year-old nest of petrified "babies" born to a primitive, fern-shaped marine organism known as a rangeomorph and then promptly buried in ash from a primordial volcanic eruption.