Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

World's largest iron ore deposit found to date transforms theories about ore formation and should generate trillions of ...

The post Microbes Learned To Thrive In An Ancient Meteor Impact Crater And Mineral Formations Were The End Result first on TwistedSifter. Just under million years ago, an asteroid hit western Finland, ...

Something that I do not hear much about, it that minerals on earth formed via geolocial processes and the water cycle. Since many places in the solar system seem to not have geological processes for ...

Quartz, diamond, calcite, and pyrite are a few of the most famous mineral “species,” according to traditional systems of classification. Yet, two papers published in American Mineralogist have ...

A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the U of A's Meteorite Collection, contains two minerals never before seen on Earth. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that ...

The current geochemical view is that hydrocarbons generated from organic matter disseminated in fine-grained sedimentary rocks and coals are controlled primarily by temperature and duration of heating ...