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 ...

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

There are three main types of rock — igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic — with varying mineral mixes depending on where and how the rock came to be. Igneous rocks — which form as magma ...

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 ...

With our ideas of volcanoes we always associate the grand and the terrible ; and a volcanic eruption—a huge piece of artillery, with a mouth perhaps miles in circumference, shooting up rocks and ...

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

The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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