Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Newly found 600-million-year-old clues in the Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents ...

The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

This finding has reshaped how we understand the Earth’s mineral wealth and is challenging old scientific beliefs about how ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

It represents one of Earth’s oldest and most stable continental blocks. The formation has undergone ... the Cordilleran Belt and the Precambrian Shield exposed in parts of the midwest.

Biotites show K2O, MgO, FeO, TiO2, and Al2O3 concentrations consistent with magmatic formation, and Ti-in-biotite thermometry suggests temperatures of ~740˚C - 800˚C. Plagioclase compositions (An26-33 ...

However, not all diamonds fall within the Precambrian span of distant geologic ... plate tectonics and an active deep carbon cycle, the formation of diamonds in the mantle may be somewhat unique to ...