UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

Pumice is an example of extrusive igneous rock. The word extrusive means that the magma was forced onto the earth's surface and cooled in a matter of hours. Granite is an example of intrusive igneous ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a large piece of a type of ...

In my last column, I wrote about the locations where you can find igneous rocks that were formed from lava. The metarhyolite and metabasalt described in the column are known as extrusive rocks, those ...

The Journal of Geology, Vol. 46, No. 3, Part 2 (Apr. - May, 1938), pp. 505-520 (16 pages) A modified variation diagram for plotting groups of chemical analyses of ...

What’s hiding inside? Why Wyoming’s Devils Tower is still a geological mystery Standing tall at 1,267 feet in Northeastern Wyoming lies Devils Tower, an iconic natural ...

One main goal of NASA's Mars 2020 mission is to determine when conditions on the planet were conducive to the formation of liquid water. Hence the target Jezero crater, seemingly a lakebed with a ...