GEOLOGISTS owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Grabau for the preparation and publication of this volume. It is a mine of information on the occurrence and characters of deposits of mineral salts, ...

When it comes to knowing what actually lies deep inside the Earth, diamonds are a geologist’s best friend. The diamond bearing the telltale mineral inclusion came from a Botswana mine and formed at ...

Earth's most abundant mineral lies deep in the planet's interior, sealed off from human eyes. Now, scientists for the first time have gotten a glimpse of the material in nature, enclosed inside a ...

An important aspect of Raman effect is that it is extremely sensitive to even small amount of differences in chemical structures. Even if all vibrations are not observed with Raman spectroscopy, ...

For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO 3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report. The newly discovered ...

A new process could enable crushed rocks to capture carbon dioxide from the air much more quickly, turbocharging a carbon removal technique that is already being widely adopted. Natural silicate ...