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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Natural geological processes have been regulating Earth's climate for millions of years. Accelerated versions of these ...

Geological mapping remains one of the mining industry’s most important tools, underpinning everything from mineral ...

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

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 ...

In a day-to-day sense, we think of our countries, the continents and landmasses that we live on, as stable things. We know how they’re shaped and how they look on a map – some of us can even draw them ...

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 ...

Our Earth is around 4.5 billion years old. Way back in its earliest years, vast oceans dominated. There were frequent volcanic eruptions and, because there was no free oxygen in the atmosphere, there ...

"This books is a result of a successful Pardee Keynote Symposium held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (October 2006)"--Page vi. Oceanic pillow lavas and ...