How can we measure the influence of human civilization on the story of planet Earth? There are the relics of culture, tools and keepsakes buried in the ground beneath the ruins of thousand-year-old ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

Tamara Ewoldt, an environmental scientist, on July 14, 2023, cuts apart bags of rock chips collected from well drilling sites across Iowa. The chips are washed, placed in envelopes and cataloged at ...

"Short course ... delivered at the joint annual meeting of the GAC-MAC, St. John's, NL, 25-26 May, 2012." 1. Use of the Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) for Mineralogical Studies of Sediments and ...

A collaborative research team led by University of Tasmania scientists has returned from a major 54-day voyage on CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator to explore the impacts of the devastating 2022 ...

In late August, the U.S. Geological Survey quietly released a new tool that could reshape how Americans understand the ground beneath their feet. The Cooperative National Geologic Map, now live online ...