The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

In some of these mafic enclaves, ellipsoidal K-feldspar crystals seem to have been captured from the tonalite magma, suggesting a degree of mixing. Sial et al. (1998) described two types of ...

Here we show that quartz crystals in Tuolumne samples record crystallization temperatures of 474-561 degrees Celsius. Titanium-in-quartz thermobarometry and diffusion modelling of titanium ...

Motoki et al. (2010, 2013) and Sichel et al. (2012) pointed out the effects of assimilation of continental crust country rocks. The relation between fractional crystallization and crustal assimilation ...

Science Tech Culture sci-fi dna Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years Researchers create 'everlasting' 5D genome memory crystal that can one day help revive ...

Timescales of Quartz Crystallization and the Longevity of. Gsecars May 30,2012.timescales of crystallization of the Bishop magma body: (1) quartz residence times.log space decreases systematically ...

Cooper used a second type of crystal clock to work out how long the magma had been in a hot and liquid state that erupts relatively easily. This second clock can use some of the same minerals—for ...

“A weighing unit made of crystal quartz was found in the 9th phase of the excavations in Keeladi,” said R. Sivanandam, Joint Director, Department of Archaeology.