"Granites aren't just rocks; they're geological archives that ... The fact that we see evidence for similar magmas on Mars through deep crustal remelting underscores the planet's complexity ...

Scientists use martite crystals to date Earth's missing rock record, revealing parts of the Great Unconformity formed 1.4 ...

The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor (e.g. Ildefonse et al., 2007) that formed ...

Earlier first arrivals, for example in the Seattle fault zone, indicate that the rocks beneath the source and/or receiver have a higher P wave velocity, allowing the signal to travel more quickly.

Using radioactive isotope systems to determine the age and origins of minerals and rocks, primarily as tracers of magmatic ... research are in the fields of cosmochemistry and mantle and crustal ...