What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

This process can occur either below the Earth’s surface, forming intrusive or plutonic igneous rocks like granite, or at the surface following a volcanic eruption, producing extrusive or ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

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 ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rockIgneous rocks are those which have been formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock (magma) from underneath the earth’s crust. are formed by magma ...

An igneous rock has come to be regarded, more constantly than before, not merely as a mineral-aggregate, but as-the product of consolidation of a molten rock-magma; and consideration has been ...

The weight of all this caused the area to sag and create a valley, and the Gunnison River flowed through these soft Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks 15 million years ago. Once the ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

Lycaon Resources recently completed scout drillhole at its Stansmore target in WA to test a magnetic anomaly has intercepted ...