Taiwan experiences some of the world's fastest rates of mountain building -- they are growing at a faster rate than our fingernails grow in a year. The mountains also see frequent and significant ...

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But projections of our planet as it was millions of years ago show landmasses that look very different, with our planet’s ...

Abstract Spatial and temporal patterns in the sedimentary record are controlled by a wide range of forcing mechanisms. Macrostratigraphy uses the temporal ranges of gap‐bound rock packages, compiled ...

Matrix factorization techniques, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA), are widely used to extract geological processes from geochemical data. However, ...

Earth is a planet full of mysteries. There are so many strange yet fascinating geological phenomena that just seem impossible to be a reality. From fossilized forests to a gas crater that has burned ...

The earliest evidence of humans altering the geology of the planet has been uncovered from the depths of the Dead Sea. A new study has documented how 11,500 years ago, soil erosion, thought to be a ...

An extraordinary geological discovery is shaking up international markets and scientific knowledge. In Western Australia, 55 billion tons of iron ore have been uncovered, with an estimated value of ...