"We look at the structure of the rocks to find out how continents came together to form the supercontinent Gondwana 500 to 600 million years ago," explained Passchier. At that time, carbonate deposits ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

The latest intimation that there might have been such episodes came from geological formations in Africa ... are overlain by a type of rock called carbonate, which indicates intense weathering.

The research is helping to develop a model that is being applied by industry to predict the quality of carbonate oil reservoirs. Carbonates are sedimentary rocks formed by layers of carbonate sediment ...

"We look at the structure of the rocks to find out how continents came together to form the supercontinent Gondwana 500 to 600 million years ago," explained Passchier. At that time, carbonate ...