A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has been recognized for excellence in research by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. RIT Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Carmala Garzione received ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio At the Limper Geology Museum, you will be able to explore a large collection of local rock, mineral, and ...

While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

"Short course ... delivered at the joint annual meeting of the GAC-MAC, St. John's, NL, 25-26 May, 2012." 1. Use of the Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) for Mineralogical Studies of Sediments and ...

Researchers in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering are exploring how rock erosion contributes to the carbon cycle by studying shale in the mountains of southern California. But as ...

Thundereggs look like regular rocks from the outside, but contain intricate and colorful mineral patterns inside — often made ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

What field of science could be more solid than geology? Rocks are visible, tangible. You can bang on them with a hammer, drill them, compress them, zap them with X-rays, ultraviolet light and radar, ...

The groundwater system in Hokkaido’s sedimentary rocks, particularly in the Horonobe region, presents a complex interplay between geological structures, diagenetic alterations and hydrological ...

The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. That’s much what scientists expected when they landed the rover Perseverance in the Jezero Crater, a spot chosen partly ...