The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...

Mark Kimsey from the University of Idaho highlights the importance of monitoring soil properties in forest management ...

Igneous rocks — which form as magma solidifies either deep within Earth or at the surface after a volcanic eruption, for example — contain a limited number of minerals that crystallize ...

Rocks play a vital yet often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle. Through a natural process that has helped regulate ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life Chinese scientists have come up with a new idea: instead of looking for water, they ...

A large igneous province could extrude roughly a million cubic kilometers of volcanic rocks over the span of ... builds until cracks in the crust form, allowing the magma to seep out onto Earth ...

as they react quickly with CO 2 and form stable carbonate minerals — rocks like igneous basalts. These rocks are plentiful in many places around the world. This method has already been ...

The Perseverance rover has reached the top of the Jezero Crater rim on Mars, a hike that rose 1,640 feet — higher than the ...

Now atop Jezero Crater, the robotic explorer found quartz indicative of habitable environments and possibly the oldest rocks yet seen in the solar system.

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 ...

In addition to assessing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks that are accessible at ... may exist in the Earth’s subsurface. The formation of porphyry copper deposits in regions of ...