Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are technically recoverable resources of 28.3 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1.6 billion barrels of oil.

Geologists say a new survey shows an oilfield in west Texas dwarfs others found so far in the United States, according to the US Geological Survey. The Midland Basin of the Wolfcamp Shale area in the ...

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

Artist impression of two types of lithospheric drip. One type produces thickening and uplift of Earth’s crust, while the other results in the formation of a basin at the surface without horizontal ...

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? My project aimed to better understand the extensional history of southwest Montana. Following Sevier and Laramide ...

July was an active month for the Atlantic basin, with the formation of two hurricanes. The Atlantic basin includes the north Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Based on a climatology data ...