Tulane researchers uncover why some continental plates stay strong while others fracture, reshaping understanding of Earth’s ...

The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...

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The abundance, distribution, and origin of lunar surface water has recently drawn significant scientific interest, owing to ...

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study. The area around Parkfield in ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: If you’ve ever held or beheld a diamond, there’s a good chance it came from a kimberlite. Over 70% of the world’s diamonds are mined from these unique volcanic structures. Yet ...

When University of Delaware professors Doug Miller, Art Trembanis, Craig Cary and Patrick Gaffney first began offering of a series of study abroad trips to New Zealand, they wanted the program to not ...

A group of undergraduate geology students from Cal State Long Beach will soon take what they learned in the classroom and apply it to real scientific research — in a first-of-its-kind trip for CSULB.

A study led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Professor Alexandre Rosado has revealed an unusual microbial world in the Hatiba Mons hydrothermal vent fields of the central ...

The shortest distance between the headwaters above the north rim of Glenwood Canyon and the canyon’s most iconic feature, Hanging Lake, is anything but a straight line. Along the way, a portion of ...

The city of Viroqua will act as the administrator for an area groundwater study slated to begin this summer. The study will attempt to map local karst geology between Viroqua and Westby. The idea for ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet that is showered with so much radiation, its atmosphere eroded away long ago, leaving it bare. Life as we know it can't exist on this blistering world, ...