To its south lies Þingvallavatn, the largest natural lake in Iceland. The only place on earth where you can see two tectonic plates colliding. Awesome Drone Shot of the Basalt Rock Columns, Studlagil ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

Rocks like limestone and basalt naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the air. It's a process called rock weathering and it's similar to other forms of natural carbon capture, such as trees in ...

In a nutshell NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered large deposits of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, in Gale Crater, ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — Long-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and ozone (O3) air pollution is associated with more hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract ... Jan. 7, 2025 — If you like the ...

The Plynlimon Research Catchments host a demonstrator site to test the hypothesis that application of basalt rock dust onto upland grassland will enhance the long-term capture of carbon in the soil ...

Large distributions of basalt rock compositions within the MTZ can cause subducting plates -- ones that slide beneath other -- to slow and/or stagnate within this zone, instead of descending ...

The exceptionally thick, 205-mile-deep mantle transition zone beneath the Antilles ranks among the thickest ever observed around the world.