Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a ...

A new paper published in Biological Reviews has revealed the potential of desert ecosystems in the global fight against ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the ...

The Great Transformation The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

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 ...

Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans. They record the geological history of the ocean basins, providing evidence for changing climates, emerging ...

The key to most subsurface processes is to determine how structural and topological features at small length scales, i.e., the microstructure, control the effective and macroscopic properties of earth ...

Policy: The collections of marine sediment and dredged rock are made available to researchers and educators to promote better understanding of the geological history of the earth and biological and ...