For reference, the pressure inside a champagne bottle measures in at 90 psi. It’s impossible to detect the special component in Pop Rocks unless you taste them.

Pressure solution creep is a mechanism that can account for the ductility of crustal rocks at low temperatures and pressures. This process involves the dissolution of minerals in regions of high ...

As the reaction progresses, a "dehydration front" moves through the rock. On the other hand, some reactions cause rocks to act like dry sponges, soaking up surrounding water and becoming denser.

Making Rocks Under Pressure Our SoundClips series continues with listener Codi Lazar, who tells us about the sounds he hears every day in a UCLA geology lab, ...

But if enhanced rock weathering proves that it can deliver CO 2 reductions at a large scale, Prevost and other farmers could be growing a climate solution along with their crops.

That pressure can be as little as a few pounds per square inch (psi), says Jens-Erik Lund Snee, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford and lead author of a Texas stress map published in October 2016 in ...

Our SoundClips series continues with listener Codi Lazar, who tells us about the sounds he hears every day in a UCLA geology lab, where pressure pumps are used to create rocks.