A basin is a depression in Earth or a dip that is lower than the rest of the surrounding land. Basins are shaped like bowls with sides higher than the bottom. Know how they are formed, where they are ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Tectonic Setting and Gondwana Basin Architecture in the Indian Shield, Vol 4. Developments in Structural Geology and Tectonics" book from Elsevier Science and Technology ...

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

The Sichuan basin is an oil-bearing and gas-rich basin with extensive development of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation shale in southwestern China. The gas shows in the shale were identified in ...

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? My project aimed to better understand the extensional history of southwest Montana. Following Sevier and Laramide ...

Increasing petroleum explorations indicate that the formation of many reservoirs is in close association with deep hot fluids, which can be subdivided into three groups including crust-derived hot ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...