From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

Taiwan experiences some of the world's fastest rates of mountain building -- they are growing at a faster rate than our fingernails grow in a year. The mountains also see frequent and significant ...

Geoscientists have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas of Earth's crust long before it should be geologically altered by known plate-boundary ...

Isotope fractionation describes how different isotopes of an element partition among minerals, liquids and gases during physical, chemical or biological processes. In geological settings, stable ...

Although dolomite is relatively plentiful in rocks older than 100 million years, scientists have been unable to replicate the geologic process in the lab—until now. Using a transmission electron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth is a planet full of mysteries. There are so many strange yet fascinating geological phenomena that just seem impossible to ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Stress -- 3. Displacement and strain -- 4. Relation between stress and strain -- 5. Loading of brittle rock to failure -- 6. Stress concentration -- 7. Theories of brittle ...

Granitic systems record a complex interplay of magmatic, hydrothermal and mechanical processes that govern the evolution of the continental crust. Primary crystallisation of granite from silica-rich ...

Geological formations whose appearance genuinely defies the geological processes that supposedly created them ...

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