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At first glance, China’s Stone Forests look like something out of a fantasy film—towering rock formations that stretch ...

mechanistic understanding of sediment formation, deposition, and lithification (particularly of carbonates and other chemical sedimentary rocks); (ii) analysis of terrestrial paleoenvironmental ...

By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars ' crust — researchers uncovered signs of water lingering at the base of the planet's upper crust, which sits between ...

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now the U.S. Midwest. This massive rift stretches approximately 2,000 kilometers ...

The Oilfield Production Chemicals Market has long been associated with conventional substances such as corrosion inhibitors, ...

Our results suggest that dioctahedral smectite formed via near-surface chemical weathering driven by fluctuations in lake level and atmospheric infiltration, a process leading to the redistribution of ...

Flowers have been brightening Earth much longer than scientists previously believed—by at least two million years. In a new ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

The red planet’s sedimentary rocks mostly formed when water helped glue together sediments that accumulated in ancient rivers, lakes, and sand dunes. Still, says Siebach, “because of granite ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

An explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with thick plumes of black smoke visible from the site.