Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical ...

A 120-km-long section of the Carlsberg Ridge has been mapped with multi-beam bathymetry system (MBS). High resolution bathymetric contour map generated with the MBS data shows well-defined axial ...

BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered that the mantle on the far side of the moon is cooler than that on the near side, after analyzing the lunar farside soil samples ...

Located beneath the lunar crust, the lunar mantle is the largest component of the moon in terms of volume, and the moon's ...

Jena, Germany, 06 August, 2014. Today, ZEISS launches Mineralogic Mining to provide fully quantitative evaluation during mineral exploration, ore characterization, process optimization and ...

WE have received for examination from Messrs. R. and J. Beck an example of their “Standard London Petrological Microscope,” which they have recently designed for the use of students. It embodies some ...

The major objective of the publications programme of the British School at Athens is to publish work by those conducting research using its facilities. The Annual therefore includes articles of short ...

From subcontinental to suboceanic lithospheric mantle -- Eclogites and pyroxenites in the SCLM -- Subduction v. intraplate metasomatism fingerprints -- Mantle textures revisited -- Relationship ...

Hyderabad: Geological Survey of India (GSI) Director-General, Asit Saha, on Friday stressed upon the need for research and innovation (R&I) in petrological studies to accelerate the pace of critical ...

Novo Tlamino lies within the Serbo-Macedonian Metallogenic Belt, a highly prospective yet underexplored region in southeast Europe, known to host epithermal gold, skarn, carbonate replacement (“CRD“s) ...