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

THE closing years of the nineteenth century witnessed a revival of interest in the petrology of gneous rocks, which must be regarded as marking an important stage in the development of that subject.

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

Scientists report on the analysis of a surprisingly Earth-like Martian rock, discovered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, that offers new insight into the history of Mars's interior and ...

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 ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...

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 ...

Rocas metamórficas del Precámbrico fueron encontradas durante un estudio geológico de reconocimiento en el área de Santa Ana, en el norponiente de Sonora. Estas rocas pertenecen a las facies de ...

In Eagle County, many of us spend our time looking up toward mountain peaks, sunsets, or circling hawks, but some of the most ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...