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The film also highlights natural phenomena such as volcanic activity and rapids, as well as rural life with cattle grazing and horse-drawn wagons crossing the plains.

The rocks could provide vital information about the geological diversity of the moon's surface and the processes that create its dust and dirt.

Basalt is an igneous rock originating as fiery volcanic lava. Geologists call basalt an extrusive rock, which means it’s derived from magma that bubbled up from under the surface of the Earth.

In a yet-to-be peer-reviewed research on the rock, presented at an international geochemistry conference last week, scientists said it contains some chemical features similar to volcanic igneous ...

The team concentrated on enormous volcanic eruptions that formed so-called "flood basalts," or large areas of land covered by basalt lava. Identified today by their stair-step structures of igneous ...