Granite and granitic rocks are amongst the oldest and most studied rocks on Earth. They are ubiquitous within the continental crust but also occur within oceanic crust, and host important deposits of ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Frank Spear, Ph.D., professor of earth and environmental sciences and Edward Hamilton ...

Chinese lunar and Martian missions unveiled far-side Moon secrets, Mars' climate shifts, and unique lunar soil compositions, signaling groundbreaking insights for space exploration and planetary ...

"Their petrogenesis and timing are unclear, and this research would dramatically help to understand their origin mechanism." ...

The study revealed their extensive distributions and obscure nature with significant implications for the petrogenesis of lunar plutonic rocks and the Chang’e-6 mission, which will facilitate ...

China has successfully launched six lunar probes so far. From Chang’E-1 to Chang’E-4, they completed the circling, landing and roving exploration, of which Chang’E-4 was the first landing on the far ...

Key Laboratory of Western Mineral Resources and Geological Engineering, MOE, School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, ...

Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The oldest lava deposits formed some 2.5 million years ago on top of an oceanic plate not much older than the volcanoes themselves. In 2019, a ...