The critical zone (CZ) comprises the near-surface region of the Earth where biological, physical and chemical weathering processes form porous soil and weathered bedrock from initially fresh bedrock. The structure of the ...

The Wolfcamp unconventional play in the Permian Basin is currently one of the most active drilling targets in North America. Despite its economic importance, the Early Permian Wolfcampian interval in the Delaware Basin ...

The Cycladic Basement is a HP-LT unit exposed in the highly distended back-arc region of the retreating Hellenic subduction zone of the southern Aegean. The HP-LT Cycladic Blueschist Unit (CBU) and the Cycladic Basement ...

During some explosive volcanic eruptions, multiple pyroclastic density currents have been produced within a short time span of each other and flowed through the same area. This creates the potential for the currents to ...

At the Macondo (MC 252-1) well, the overpressure (fluid pressure greater than hydrostatic) in the main reservoir is nearly identical to that within a stratigraphically equivalent sandstone at the Galapagos Field development ...

Following the breakup of the L-Chondrite Parent Body in the Mid-Ordovician, the Earth experienced a drastic increase in the number of meteorite impacts. This event, the Ordovician Meteorite Event (OME), has been confirmed ...

Sikinos and Ios Islands, located in the Southern Cyclades of the Aegean, are part of a Cenozoic metamorphic core complex system that exposes subduction-related rocks in the highly-extended back-arc region of the Hellenic ...