Atmos reports on the significance of understanding rocks to address climate issues.

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 ...

Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the formation and uplift of large, elevated landforms, known as mountains. The term "orogenesis" comes from Greek ...

The earliest evidence of humans altering the geology of the planet has been uncovered from the depths of the Dead Sea. A new study has documented how 11,500 years ago, soil erosion, thought to be a ...

The geology of Venus presents a complex interplay between extensive volcanic activity, mantle dynamics and tectonic deformation. Recent studies have revealed that, in the absence of Earth‐like plate ...

Although dolomite is relatively plentiful in rocks older than 100 million years, scientists have been unable to replicate the geologic process in the lab—until now. Using a transmission electron ...

Water, mineral, and energy resources are essential to what we do in our everyday lives. Their formation and distribution around the globe are due to fascinating geologic processes. Our dependence on ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

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 ...

Abstract Spatial and temporal patterns in the sedimentary record are controlled by a wide range of forcing mechanisms. Macrostratigraphy uses the temporal ranges of gap‐bound rock packages, compiled ...