One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Find out how magma has created igneous rock features with this BBC Bitesize Scotland article for P5, P6, P7 - Second Level CfE ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) of South Africa, these microscopic ...

Change Rocks! There are three major categories for classifying rocks: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. Sedimentary rocks give a geologic history lesson with their layers.

The igneous phosphate ore found at First Phosphate's Bégin-Lamarche property in Quebec, Canada is mostly from nelsonite and oxide-apatite-mafic- ultramafic rocks in massif anorthosite from the ...

Unusual Mars rock: Pyramid-shaped volcanic rock unlike any other Martian igneous rock ever found Date: September 26, 2013 Source: Oregon State University Summary: The first rock that scientists ...

This is a beginner's guide to identifying UK rock types. The guide has two main sections: background information on the structure and forces affecting the Earth in relation to rock formation a more ...

Here's what to know about the rock that is found in the Upper Peninsula along Lake Superior: What is a Yooperlite? Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula ...

First Phosphate properties consist of rare anorthosite igneous phosphate rock that generally yields high purity phosphate material devoid of high concentrations of harmful elements.