Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

Q is for “quartz.” In the Timex universe it is, anyway. The modern Q Timex offers fashionably vintage aesthetics at very accessible prices, the collection is also much more than that: it represents a ...

Our findings indicate heterogeneous shock pressures (~≥2 GPa) and temperatures (~≥1710°C) produced various microparticles, including FeO and aluminosilicate glass microspherules, melted quartz ...