University of Wyoming

UW Professor Leads Study That Finds Physical Weathering of Rock Breakdown More Important Than Previously Recognized

Brad Carr, a UW associate research scientist in geology and geophysics, uses the Geoprobe instrument to sample the subsurface in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada in California. Carr ...

Lunar soil analyses reveal how space weathering shapes the moon's ultraviolet reflectance

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are collaborating with researchers at UT San Antonio to study how space ...
Nature

Elevated weathering rates in the Rocky Mountains during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

Figure 1: Map of the central Rocky Mountain lake province showing the Early Eocene palaeocatchment of the GGRB 6. Figure 3: Comparison of Eocene chemical weathering, physical erosion and overall ...
Technology Networks

Microscopy Analysis of Lunar Soil Reveals the Impact of Space Weathering

By analyzing just a few grains of returned samples from the Apollo missions, researchers gained important insights into the evolution of the lunar surface shaped by solar wind and micrometeoroid ...
Gizmodo

This Is the Slowest and Most Destructive Process on Earth

Rocks are not eternal. Even the tallest mountain will eventually dissolve and disintegrate. Geologists call this process “weathering.” It sounds harmless enough, but weathering is one of the most ...
EurekAlert!

Study find physical weathering of rock breakdown more important than previously recognized

Research led by the University of Wyoming shows that physical weathering is far more important than previously recognized in the breakdown of rock in mountain landscapes. Because it is difficult to ...