Hydrothermal fluids can transport suspended metal-rich melt droplets (nano-to-micron-sized) that are precursors to polymineral inclusions and potentially a key process in noble metal ...

I had some requests to port my geologic symbols from GRASS GIS's symbol format into SVG for use with QGIS, so here they are in the hope that they are useful. I just coded the SVG by hand, improvements ...

I had some requests to port my geologic symbols from GRASS GIS's symbol format into SVG for use with QGIS, so here they are in the hope that they are useful. I just coded the SVG by hand, improvements ...

A view of Ukinrek Maars in Alaska. The eastern maar (front) is typical of volcanic maars in that it is a deep, round crater filled with water. (Image credit: Nye, C. via USGS) However, there are ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

Southern California is frequently shaken by earthquakes. How they feel to people living in Los Angeles has a lot to do with the sediment-filled basin the city sits upon. Jack Wonfor spotted a ...

Geology is the study of Earth's history, composition and evolution. We tackle this through a multidisciplinary programme stretching from understanding Earth materials, internal processes that cause ...