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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in concentrations high enough to notice but not high enough for anyone to care ...