CORVALLIS – When you walk about your yard on a wet day, do your shoes stick in the mud? Could you make ceramic pots out of the soil in your garden? If the answers are yes to both, odds are you have ...

Set for October 16-17, 2021, Decatur’s River Clay Fine Arts Festival returns with 58 local and national artists for a two-day celebration of the visual arts. In addition to the artist market, festival ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - The annual River Clay Fine Arts Festival in Decatur was canceled on Sunday due to the threat of high winds. Organizers made a statement on their Facebook page announcing the ...

Weak spots in the Earth's crust in the northwest Pacific contain the same kind of clay as that found at the fault that caused Japan's 2011 tsunami. Slippery clay contributed to the devastating tsunami ...

Petrological analysis of clay-rich soil and rock can be critical to the success of civil engineering or geo-environmental site investigation. In the vast majority of cases the materials recovered from ...

A research team that drilled to a depth of almost five miles discovered that the narrow fault beneath the earthquake zone was filled with extremely fine sediment. "It's the slipperiest clay you can ...