Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

About 90 percent of precipitation over land depends on the formation of ice crystals in clouds, which fall down due to their increasing weight. But water in clouds only freezes when certain particles ...

Felspar dust in the air can create clouds. The feldspar particles act as nucleation sites to which water molecules can attach extremely efficiently. Why this is the case has remained a mystery for a ...

Juliana Curtis, a senior Geology major with an Environmental Science co-major and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems, has collected rocks her entire life. Soon after coming to Miami, she ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 95, No. 26 (Dec. 22, 1998), pp. 15173-15176 (4 pages) Mineral surfaces were important during the emergence of life ...

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are studying feldspar, a ubiquitous mineral that makes up about half of the earth’s crust and plays a surprisingly important role in cloud formation.

Explore the Aucanquilcha volcano in Chile and uncover fascinating amphibole mineral textures through polarized light microscopy. You might notice a scale bar below the crystal - that is 200 ...

In the atmosphere, feldspar particles act as ice nuclei that make ice crystals grow in clouds and enable precipitation. The reason was found with the help of electron microscopy observations and ...

Feldspar is a ubiquitous mineral and makes up about half of the Earth's crust. In the Earth's atmosphere, feldspars play a surprisingly important role. Fine powder carried by air influences cloud ...