The proposed mathematical model can become the basis for creating artificial intelligence tools used in geology and ...

Local planetary geologist Chris Okubo is on a mission to understand the past roles of groundwater and faulting on Mars by studying similar locations on Earth. Okubo works in the Astrogeology Research ...

Fractures are the main way that water and other fluids move through rocks below the Earth's surface. As fluids move through these fractures, the fluids react with minerals in the rock and in the ...

This report examines the state of practice and state of art in the characterization of fractured rock and the chemical and biological processes related to subsurface contaminant fate and transport. It ...

Chemical reactions key to the origin of life on Earth could have occurred as molecules moved along thermal gradients within networks of thin rock fractures deep underground. Such networks, which would ...

Historically, it was thought that fracture strength depended on lithology and overburden pressure. To date, it is known that the overburden pressure is only one component of many that form fractures, ...

Geologists studying ancient desert rocks have stumbled on a microscopic tunnel system that looks uncannily deliberate, a lacework of hair-thin tubes that slice through solid stone in repeating ...