Geology

Geology

The science that comprises the study of the solid Earth and the processes by which it is shaped and changed.

Contributors in Geology

Geology

A region on Venus that is centred at 12.3 degrees north latitude, 8.3 degrees east longitude, with an area 160 kilometres (96 miles) by 250 kilometres (150 miles). Its prominent circular features are ...

Elysium uplift

Earth science; Geology

A region at the centre of a huge bulge in the Martian surface formed by a series of fluid lava flow eruptions that carpeted its flanks and slowly built up the high features we see today, and is ...

Domes

Earth science; Geology

An uplift or anticlinal structure, circular or elliptical in outline, in which rocks dip gently away in all directions. Doming results in extension of the crust above, and leads to predominantly ...

Drumlins

Earth science; Geology

A low, smoothly rounded, elongate hill of compact glacial till, or rarely other kinds of drift, built under the margin of the ice and shaped by its flow or carved out of an older moraine by ...

Double chain

Earth science; Geology

A class or structural type of silicate characterised by the linkage of the SiO 4 tetrahedra into linear chains by the sharing of oxygens. In a double chain or band, e.g. amphiboles, half the SiO 4 ...