Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers. Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the ...

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

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever found on our planet's surface. A new dating analysis of minerals in the ...

Igneous classification of float rocks is challenging because of the following: (1) the possibility that they have been affected by sedimentary processes or weathering, and (2) grain size heterogeneity ...

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 ...

It’s only when you take a close look with advanced tools like the scanning electron microscope at USU’s Microscopy Core Facility that you can determine the existence of tiny hematite crystals that ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why don’t rocks burn? – Luke, age 4, New Market, ...