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

While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

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 ...

Just click, hold, and drag to explore the Columns of the Giants in California. Zoom in to take a closer look by using your mouse or the toolbar. Navigating the tour is simple. Hover over the toolbar ...

During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser ...

A study established a quantitative fracture identification method for the igneous reservoir rock in the Xingcheng group of Xushen gas field, a field near Daqing in northeastern China. The method uses ...

A rock on Mars being studied by NASA's Curiosity rover is unlike any Martian stone ever seen, and is surprisingly similar to an unusual, but well-known, kind of rock on Earth. This type of rock is the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. What are the most common minerals on earth? The answers is not as ...

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 ...