WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Scientists obtained the most detailed measurements of the moon's gravity and used that data to model for the first time the formation of a major impact basin and the rings that ...
New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...
A researcher shows a lunar sample retrieved by the Chang'e 6 mission at the lunar sample laboratory in the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, ...
Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...
Artist impression of two types of lithospheric drip. One type produces thickening and uplift of Earth’s crust, while the other results in the formation of a basin at the surface without horizontal ...
Artist impression of multi-stage lithospheric dripping process in Central Anatolia. Initial lithospheric removal via a primary drip beneath Central Anatolia causing plateau uplift since between 10 and ...
A basin is a depression in Earth or a dip that is lower than the rest of the surrounding land. Basins are shaped like bowls with sides higher than the bottom. Know how they are formed, where they are ...