Salt tectonics and diapirism are fundamental processes in sedimentary basins where thick evaporite sequences behave as mobile ductile layers, responding to differential loading, buoyancy forces and ...

Genesis” of the legendary Middle Eastern river that was described in one of the Bible’s most important stories, per an ...

Northern Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere—is rapidly disappearing and by some ...

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ...

An international team of geologists has reconstructed the history of the Euphrates' origin and found that about 5.35 million ...

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea evaporated, leaving behind a vast salt desert and mineral deposits. This geological event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, caused the sea level to ...

A product of the Jurassic Period, the mountain is about 150 million years old. Blackcomb is formed primarily of hard, ...

The North Sea basins encompass a multi-phase record of rifting, sedimentation and inversion that spans from the Devonian to the present. Early extensional tectonics generated a mosaic of half-grabens ...

A mystery that reaches back through the sands of time has finally been solved, with geologists finally managing to pinpoint ...

High-achieving applicants for the September 2026 intake will be automatically considered. Details at GITAM (Deemed to be ...

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

Idaho is famous for two things: gems and potatoes. If there had to be a third, though, perhaps silver would be a good choice.