Meanwhile, Dior’s jewelry division has introduced pendant versions of its Gem Dior watch — one with jazzy malachite, the other with delicate aragonite — dangling from a thread-thin link-bar ...

He explained that these types of fossils are made from the mineral aragonite, which retains a dazzling iridescence due to its microscopic structure. “Ammolite is very unique as it’s a ...

Cycles of ice sheet growth (glacials) and intervening warmth (interglacials) in Earth’s past—largely triggered by shifts in the amount of solar radiation (insolation) reaching the planet ...

The experiments were conducted using the GDS triaxial automated system. Hydraulic pressure controllers capable of reaching up to 2 MPa, were utilized to apply the cell and back pressures. A ...

There's only one other location in the world where original aragonite this old has been found, which is at the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma's Arbuckle Mountains. The other known sites ...

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While bulk unrecrystallized aragonite coral skeletons can be used to reconstruct past ocean conditions, corals that have undergone significant diagenesis have altered geochemical signatures and are ...