This moisture in the layer of weathered rock that is commonly located beneath soils is an important part of the water cycle on the local and global level. Tree roots tap into the rock moisture and release it back into the atmosphere as water vapor, and water flows through the fractures and becomes part of the seasonal groundwater storage (blue arrows).

Hidden ‘rock moisture’ could be key to understanding forest response to...

Cremastosperma brevipes, French Guiana.

Geological change confirmed as a factor behind the extensive diversity in...

Hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

Life in world’s driest desert seen as sign of potential life...

This is the sampling site Lomas Bayas in the core region of the Atacama.

Life under extreme drought conditions

Ground-running bird model may predict bipedal dinosaur locomotion.

Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running...

Schematic evolution of retrogressive slope failure due to overpressured gas below the gas haydrate stability zone (GHSZ)

Stable gas hydrates can trigger landslides

Teide volcano in Tenerife.

New insight into how magma feeds volcanic eruptions

Erosional Pleistocene shorelines in Surprise Valley, California, USA.

Extinct lakes of the American desert west

Cratonic lithosphere with a high-density root undergoes delamination when perturbed by mantle plumes from beneath. The removed cratonic root then thermally grows back, with its rock fabrics preserving recent mantle deformation.

Continental interiors may not be as tectonically stable as geologists think

Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii -- 400 million-year-old fossil plant stem from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Plants colonized Earth 100 million years earlier than previously thought

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