Experts hope the minerals they find via this method will “power green, renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.” ...

so the compositions of rocks, and the minerals they consist of, are interrogated to answer fundamental questions across a wide range of geological disciplines. At CU Boulder, we use petrology to study ...

Using radioactive isotope systems to determine the age and origins of minerals and rocks, primarily as tracers of magmatic processes and the evolution of the earth. Organic molecules in natural waters ...