The asteroid Vesta weathers differently than any other researched moon or asteroid, according to a recent analysis by Carle Pieters, professor of geological sciences, and other investigators for ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

Chemical weathering can control how susceptible bedrock in river beds is to erosion, according to new research. In addition to explaining how climate can influence landscape erosion rates, the results ...

The continental cratons are the most long-lived, almost permanent megafeatures of the Planet Earth, and thus preserve (in favourable places) veneers of ancient duricrusted paleosols and shallow marine ...

To a geologist, a gravestone can offer information other rocks can't. One project is using gravestones to better understand how the elements, particularly acid rain, are weathering rocks around the ...