The findings could impact how we understand the composition of the land we walk on, together with our understanding of volcanic activity and earthquake risk ...

This research provides tangible evidence of a major geological process, offering new insights into the formation and evolution of continents. The Sierra Nevada proves to be a natural laboratory for ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has introduced the latest capability of its iSURE (intelligent Sandvik underground rock ...

Researchers develop a novel methodology called Roughness-CANUPO-Dip-Facet (R-C-D-F), which leverages machine learning to ...

The latter, by comparison, took millions of years to form. “This was a very violent, a very dramatic geologic process,” said lead author David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in ...

Ridge subduction is an important geological process that triggers volcanic activity, thermal metamorphism (the alteration of rocks by heat), and hydrothermal activity (chemical reactions between ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the Ethiopian desert. Thus began the East African Rift, a geological process in which the continent is slowly being torn in two. This ...

Climate change presents an unprecedented global challenge, mainly driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Among these gases, ...