In a recent study in the journal Sedimentologika, for example, researchers documented a new kind of sedimentary rock made from coastal slag deposits in the U.K. This rock follows other formations ...

Fine-grained sedimentary rocks, commonly referred to as "shale" or "mudstone", constitute approximately two thirds of the sedimentary column on Earth, and are nonetheless the least understood ...

After a decade in the works, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully devised a way to produce ...

The research, published this week in the journal Science Advances, examined how the erosion of sulphide minerals in ...

A rock is an assemblage of mineral grains..... Each tetrahedron may be isolated from ... The more silica, the more covalent bonding and the greater the stability to chemical weathering. The more ...

Identification, physical properties, chemical composition, occurrence, and origin of the important types of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Laboratory includes hand specimen description ...

Could It Be Real? Space enthusiasts have always been fascinated by NASA's Mars missions. In its attempt to find life, NASA's ...

A recent study investigated the temperature sensitivity of mineral permafrost feedback on a continental scale. It focused on ...

This academic year, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomes nine new faculty members and researchers to ...

Researchers have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will release more and more carbon dioxide to ...