The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

During serpentinization, awaruite (Ni₃Fe) forms as a secondary mineral when liberated nickel (Ni 2+) and iron (Fe 2+) from the olivine, pyroxene, and chromite minerals react with the abundant hydrogen ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The findings, published in Geology, revealed that as they scraped deep into Earth’s ancient continental crust, they sent ... the land but also shifting the composition of sediments that ended ...

Inch by inch, as massive glaciers crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea, they scoured the ground beneath them, gouging and scraping rocks from Earth’s crust. When the glaciers ...

Beneath the cold and stiff crust, rocky planets have a hot, deformable mantle. Whether it is the individual continental plates on Earth – lithospheric blocks drifting past each other like rafts – or ...

The behavior, bioavailability and toxicity of heavy metals in soil depend essentially on their chemical composition. This paper seeks to quantify trace metal elements (TMEs) in mine tailings and to ...

ABSTRACT: Located in Southeastern Chad. The Iro lake offers a great opportunity for the study of Precambrian formations and their Phanerozoic cover. Pluton is a Cal-alkaline granite. Due to its ...