Figure 1: The eastern Papuan peninsula has been undergoing extension since at least 6 Myr ago. Figure 2: Schematic interpretation of the present-day crustal structure along the heat-flow profile ...

Figure 1: The active plate boundary, South Island, New Zealand. We have shown that rapid exhumation of rock from an orogen has the potential to produce dehydration that can produce amounts of fluid ...

Metamorphic rock is the result of the transformation of a pre-existing rock type, the protolith, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form". The protolith is subjected to heat and ...

Marble is best known for what it can be made into — incredible artworks or tacky ashtrays. But before it was that prized white-grey rock, marble was something a lot more pedestrian — limestone. For ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

(a) The Proto-Tethys tectonic domain in western China. (b) The Paleo-Tethys tectonic domain in eastern China. “Sub”, “Col”, “Exh”, and “P-co” denote subduction, collision, exhumation, and ...

Biochemistry Professor Andy LiWang may have uncovered a universal mechanism that explains how bacteria, and potentially many ...