Water-related disasters, exacerbated by climate change and population growth, pose a significant threat to human sustainability. In Japan, where a large portion of the population resides in ...

IT is appropriate that this work is written by experienced members of the United States Geological Survey who are likewise heads respectively of the departments of geology and geography in the ...

For years, scientists have been trying to understand the mechanisms behind the destruction of Earth’s cratons, but results have remained elusive. Now, in a Nature Geoscience study, researchers ...

Geoscientists have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas of Earth's crust long before it should be geologically altered by known plate-boundary ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Stress -- 3. Displacement and strain -- 4. Relation between stress and strain -- 5. Loading of brittle rock to failure -- 6. Stress concentration -- 7. Theories of brittle ...

Buried beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice, a newly discovered fan-shaped geological structure is changing how scientists understand Earth’s hidden history. The East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin ...

In a recent study published in the journal Icarus, a team of researchers at the International Research School of Planetary Science (IRSPS) located at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara in ...

Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but the two planets evolved into dramatically different worlds. Scientists believe the explanation may lie in the planet’s geology and the absence of key geographic ...

Geoscientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Istanbul Technical University have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas of Earth's ...