Shales typically display fissility, the ability to be broken along thin subparallel surfaces. Mudstones are similar to shales except that they tend to be more massive, i.e., they do not display ...

In August, a study claimed an altar stone from Stonehenge had been transported from the Orkney Islands. A new study rejects ...

Simple non-biological organic molecules are common in the universe, and NASA's Curiosity rover already found them in mudstones in Gale Crater. They were also reportedly detected by Perseverance in ...

Two drill holes tested the Junction IP anomaly encountered volcanoclastics and mudstones with no clear explanation of the ...

Tens of millions of years ago, seas, swamps, and rivers deposited dozens of layers of rock: limestones, mudstones, shales, many reddened by traces of iron. In those eons the plateau country was ...

Investigations by the American robot Curiosity at another site halfway around the planet have already found fine-grained, clay-bearing mudstones that were laid down in a lake setting. Researchers ...

‘As dinosaurs lived on land, their remains are usually found in mudstones and sandstones laid down by rivers, lakes and sand dunes.’ ‘To date, the most dinosaur fossils have come from the USA, Canada, ...

The Perseverance rover landed a couple of km to the southeast of the main delta formation "We're definitely in the right place." There's an air of relief in the science team running the American ...

Most of Ireland's Mesozoic rocks were deposited beneath the sea - these include chalks, limestones and mudstones. Dinosaurs are land animals, so to have been preserved in these types of rocks they ...

Two drill holes tested the Junction IP anomaly encountered volcanoclastics and mudstones with no clear explanation of the anomaly. This program fulfills the requirements to complete 6,000 metres ...