This bold mineralogist and feminist bucked norms that deemed geology unsuited for women. She contributed to meteoritics, science history, and petrology, including the analysis of Apollo Moon rocks.Read More »Planetary Sciences
The results of a new study show Mars’s Medusae Fossae Formation is the largest known explosive volcanic deposit in the solar system.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
The deformation of continents by groundwater can be measured locally by GPS or detected from satellites, but more precisely monitored when measurements are combined with a hydrologic model.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Mechanical modeling suggests that previous, undetected eruptions released tectonic stress near the ice-covered Bárðarbunga volcano.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
A new surface velocity map shows strain localized along major strike-slip features, suggesting the central Tibetan Plateau is not deforming as a fluid in response to gravitational collapse.Read More »
