Crystalline brown-hornblende mylonite, with a composition similar to some basanites and nephelin-ites, was crushed and reacted with excess water and with no water added (about 2% water present) in ...

Tullis and Tullís (1972) demonstrated that mechanical Dauphiné twinning forms in response to differences in elastic strain energy and predicted that these twins should be very common in deformed rocks ...

Scientists are constantly on a mission to untangle how Earth alone among the planets was able to evolve complex life. We know that Earth's past internal movements of the tectonic plates under our feet ...