This week's contribution is from Pat Shanks and Lisa Morgan, research geologist emeriti with the U.S. Geological ... springs in other areas of the park, West Thumb Geyser Basin is one of the ...
A team of scientists led by Kirby Runyon from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, has created a detailed geological map of Mare Orientale basin, the Moon's youngest large impact site.
Mud pots form in a few selected areas of West Thumb Geyser Basin where low-pH acidic fluids dissolve rocks and soil to produce clay-rich muds. (Pat Shanks/U.S. Geological Survey) ...
Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...