So far in this series, pretty much every material we’ve covered has had to undergo a significant industrial process to transform it from its natural state to a more useful product. Whether it ...

Birmingham based QUARTZ (a hard rock/heavy metal band) are still "around and around" and amazingly the band boasts three of ...

Right: OH-defects in young (0.3 Gyr) Variscan granites are one order of magnitude higher than in old (0.9-1.8 Gyr) Proterozoic granites from Scandinavia . The OH-content is reflected in recent ...

The “quartz-monitor” research project investigates the intrinsic chemical variations of detrital monocrystalline quartz and inclusions (mineral and melt) as an innovative sediment provenance tool. The ...