The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops ...

DEEP weathering is known in various types of rock at a large number of scattered localities in northeast Scotland. This is particularly true of the basic rocks of the Insch mass ; but sections ...

In this extract from the book "When the Sahara Was Green", Martin Williams, professor of earth sciences at the University of Adelaide, explores how a vanishing ocean and global cooling set the ...

The natural process of rock weathering could be emitting as much carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the air as the world’s volcanoes.A study published October 4 in the journal Nature finds that natural ...

As a researcher, I am investigating the behaviour of metals critical for our modern economy in earth systems. I am specifically focused on those metals concentrated by deep weathering processes in ...