The Fellowship did not begin the Quest in the Shire; nor did the Quest end in the darkest depths of Mordor. There was no trekking through the Mines of Moria, and the Plains of Rohan remain untrod, for ...

A huge, copper-toned formation in West Africa dominates a mesmerizing photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this hypnotic image of ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth at scales from mineral fabrics to lithospheric plates, and at time frames ranging from ...

Structural geology is the discipline devoted to the study of rock deformation and the resulting features – such as folds, faults, joints and other discontinuities – that record the history of tectonic ...

Structural geologist Michele Cooke calls it the "million-dollar question" that underlies all work in her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: what goes on deep in the earth as strike ...

In a study published today in Nature Geoscience a team of scientists, including glaciologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, detail how they ...

VANCOUVER – JULY 3, 2013 – James Siddorn was awarded the Past Presidents Memorial Medalby the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, in recognition of his efforts to teach and inspire ...

At Bates, faculty advise student theses on a range of topics. To get a sense of what is possible in EACS, have a look at the list of theses and e-copies of theses that have been done over the last ...

Geophysical interpretation of existing data shows strong correlation between till anomalies and underlying faulted and folded rocks; Gold occurrences in the general area are characterized by a black ...