According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are technically recoverable resources of 28.3 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1.6 billion barrels of oil.

Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...

The glutenite reservoir rock of the fan delta facies is associated with a complex sedimentary environment and high heterogeneity, and by far the characteristics and controlling factors of the ...

A new discovery in the Permian Basin is challenging the narrative that shale oil and gas in the United States is declining.

Schrödinger basin is a complex impact structure centred at 75°S, 132.5°E—near the southwestern rim of the Moon’s oldest and largest impact basin, South Pole-Aitken (SPA), where a few kilometres of SPA ...

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

Artist impression of two types of lithospheric drip. One type produces thickening and uplift of Earth’s crust, while the other results in the formation of a basin at the surface without horizontal ...

July was an active month for the Atlantic basin, with the formation of two hurricanes. The Atlantic basin includes the north Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Based on a climatology data ...