Some of the tunnels can easily house humans. Image courtesy of Heinrich Frank. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Around the turn of the century, a number of huge tunnels were discovered in South America. After ...

Taiwan experiences some of the world's fastest rates of mountain building -- they are growing at a faster rate than our fingernails grow in a year. The mountains also see frequent and significant ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Stress -- 3. Displacement and strain -- 4. Relation between stress and strain -- 5. Loading of brittle rock to failure -- 6. Stress concentration -- 7. Theories of brittle ...

Researchers have discovered an accelerated, human-driven rock formation process taking place in West Cumbria. © University of Glasgow The geological processes that ...

"This books is a result of a successful Pardee Keynote Symposium held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (October 2006)"--Page vi. Oceanic pillow lavas and ...

Scientists have discovered a dramatic geological process beneath eastern Africa that could reshape the continent over millions of years. New research published in Nature Geoscience reveals that pulses ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from the University of Manchester have uncovered a remarkable geological discovery beneath the North Sea. This ...

The geology of Venus presents a complex interplay between extensive volcanic activity, mantle dynamics and tectonic deformation. Recent studies have revealed that, in the absence of Earth‐like plate ...

Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way. There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across, ...

NASA’s Perseverance has found Mars rocks with unusual nodules and organic material that may represent ancient microbial ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...