Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

Scientists Alarmed After Finding 'Highly Toxic' Goo Spread Across Earth's Ocean Floor ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates ...

IN MARYLAND, the serpentine barrens run through the northwest corner of Cecil County and enter Harford just south of Broad Creek and perpendicular to the Susquehanna River. The geological formation ...

Researchers have revealed the mechanisms for the formation of methane, which may have been a crucial stage in the origin of life on Earth. Serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal systems have been suggested ...

The serpentinite-dominated mélange was initially formed at the slab-mantle interface, which is primarily composed of forearc serpentinite along with minor sediments and possibly other slab-derived ...

Serpentine soils contain highly variable amounts of calcium, making them marginal lands for farming. Successful management of serpentine soils requires accurate measurement of the calcium they hold.

Starting today I will be doing weekly posts for the San Francisco Bay Area public TV/radio station KQED’s community science blog. They produce a television program called QUEST that highlights greater ...

The behaviour of the San Andreas fault varies along its length — it slips in some places and creeps in others. The discovery of the ultrasoft mineral talc in rocks from deep inside the fault could ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 378, No. 2165, Discussion meeting issue: Serpentinite in the Earth system (21 February 2020), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) ...