Deep cracks in the ground are not alien in hilly areas. However, they can be a sign that a landslide is about to happen and ...

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

Major nepheline syenite deposit can be found across Khibiny Complex, Russia, Ontario, Norway, Brazil, Greenland, Egypt, and Mexico. In order to be able to fulfill rising demand, the chemical industry ...

Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, and Ryan Ickert, a ...

Arizona’s violent volcanic history, coupled with the Colorado River’s millennia of cutting and churning through the earth’s crust, have left a lot of cool-looking rocks and minerals strewn throughout ...

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

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes ...

While sampling has gained fresh prominence thanks to the accessibility of modern technology and is most commonly associated with hip-hop and electronic music, rock bands have also been employing this ...

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

Local architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir thinks this method could be used for a lot more than defending ... or other urban structures solely of igneous rock. “We know lava has structural ...

A digital reconstruction helps perceive the acoustics In addition to the acoustic analysis, the researchers used impulse responses to make the acoustic characteristics of the rock painting sites ...

The problem is that iron, aluminum and sodium aren't normally found in crystalline igneous zircon—so how did these elements end up in the Martian zircon? The answer is hot water. In Earth rocks ...