In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

Geologists recently unveiled groundbreaking seismic evidence of massive, ancient “fortresses” located nearly 1,800 miles ...

The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small,” Sotheby’s vice chairman of science and natural history ...

Diorite is a course-grained igneous rock that forms when magma rich in silica cools slowly deep within the Earth's crust. How would a geologist figure out how it formed using rock characteristics?

Appalachian State University’s Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Lab and Rock Garden, a resource for geology students, researchers and ...

Large masses of plutonic rock—such, for example, as the granites of Devon and Cornwall—can be proved by field evidence to fill spaces that must formerly have been occupied by other rocks.

Among the new features are chapters dealing with the consolidation of magmas; the classification of igneous rocks; changes in composition subsequent to consolidation (including pneu-matolytic ...

Scientists discovered three minerals that had previously never been found naturally occurring on Earth.

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