A large igneous province could extrude roughly a million cubic kilometers of volcanic rocks over the span of a million years. “The scale of these volcanic provinces, I think, is very difficult ...

As we’ve just mentioned, obsidian is often thought of as being dark and opaque, but it can actually come in a whole bunch of ...

Dissolved carbon dioxide may have bubbled up from magma far below Earth's surface, contributing to prolonged warming.

In 1931, the Lafayette meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University. Since then, it has become a focus for ...

Many kids and some adults enjoy collecting rocks. I still enjoy it but now I only look for rocks that indicate mineral ...

The aim is to harness lava as it is flowing after an eruption and use the molten rock as eco-friendly architectural building ...

It is exposed at surface with no overburden and is amenable to low cost efficient bulk dredge mining, which will be contained ...

NASA Discovered Yellow Sulfur Crystals In A Rock, The First Discovery Of Pure Sulfur On Mars . Weighing in at 1,982-pounds, ...

Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many ...

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and ...

Selfwealth (ASX:SWF) also jumped after Bell Financial sweetened its takeover offer to 25 cents per share. Bell had received a ...

Petrology is the study of the macroscopic and microscopic mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks. In addition to assessing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks that are accessible ...