Understanding the composition of Earth’s inner core is crucial for revealing the mechanisms of core formation and the evolution of Earth. The presence of light elements in the Earth’s inner core has been indicated in recent ...

Chapter I demonstrates that a discontinuity surface occurs between the Silurian Plaines Member of the Kankakee Dolomite and Brandon Bridge Member of the Joliet Dolomite of Illinois and their stratigraphic equivalents in ...

This thesis is devoted to a study of two unique zones of slow, internal deformation occurring in oceanic lithosphere: namely, the Azores-Gibraltar plate boundary in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Davie Ridge-Madagascar ...

A compaction model which incorporates energy transport with fluid flow to investigate the role of three-dimensional loading and thermal expansion of fluid in generating the excess pore pressure in nonhomogeneous sedimentary ...