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

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman observation about volcanic ash is inspiring researchers to reinvent cement and slash its carbon ...

Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg (both in ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...