A rock core was extracted by a team of researchers from a depth of 15 meters belowground, ensuring that the sample had ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

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

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 ...

The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here's what to know.

Anorthosite, monzonite, and syenite are different igneous intrusive rocks with different compositions that form when they intrude into different kinds of rock. If it’s hard to visualize, the best ...

Because these crater floor samples came from igneous rocks forged in lava flows, they can help scientists understand the chemical composition of Mars’s interior, Wadhwa points out.

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This study compiles comprehensive geochemical data, including major and trace elements, as well as the isotopic composition of igneous rocks spanning from 147 to 40 Ma at the Santos Basin and adjacent ...