IT is generally recognized that the mineral composition of crops has an important bearing on human and animal health, and increasing attention is being paid to the interrelationships between such ...

The mineralogy of Earth is determined by its chemical composition, its physical conditions, and its evolution over time. About 5,000 minerals have been found on Earth and every year some new ones are ...

Quartz, diamond, calcite, and pyrite are a few of the most famous mineral “species,” according to traditional systems of classification. Yet, two papers published in American Mineralogist have ...

Abstract We examine the effect of body mass on milk composition among Old World fruit bats, including Pteropus pumilus (0.175 kg), Pteropus rodricensus (0.265 kg), Pteropus hypomelanus (0.571 kg), and ...

The impact of Earth’s geology on life is easy to see, with organisms adapting to environments as different as deserts, mountains, forests, and oceans. The full impact of life on geology, however, can ...