Figure 1: Martian and laboratory spectra of feldspar-rich materials. Materials associated with fluvial systems and/or phyllosilicates (as in Xanthe and Noachis Terrae) could have undergone limited ...
About 252 million years ago, more than 81 percent of animal life in the oceans and 89 percent of animal life on land went extinct. This event, called the "end-Permian mass extinction" (EPME), ...
The early Earth may have looked much like Iceland—where lava fields stretch as far as the eye can see, inky mountainsides tower above the clouds and stark black sand beaches outline the land. But the ...
The rocks at the surface of the modern Earth are broadly divided into two types: felsic and mafic. Felsic rocks are generally relatively low density — for a rock — and light in colour because they are ...
Top: Map of thorium concentrations near Compton crater on the lunar far side. Bottom: LRO view of the felsic highland volcano. After Jolliff et al. (2011), Nature Geoscience 4, 566. The flood of new ...
Toogood Gold Corp. ( ($TSE:TGC) ) has shared an announcement. Toogood Gold Corp. reported that a high-resolution Deep Ground Penetrating Radar ...
The Earth’s history is written in its elements, but as the tectonic plates slip and slide over and under each other over time, they muddy that evidence—and with it the secrets of why Earth can sustain ...