A Python-based tool for classifying igneous rocks using the QAPF system and generating formal petrographic descriptions. Designed for both hand sample and thin section input, this software supports ...

The methodology implemented is based on a summary of previous works, geological mapping, petrographic study of 20 thin sections, geochemical study through discrimination diagrams of 5 rocks samples, ...

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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 ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

Large masses of plutonic rock—such, for example, as the granites of Devon and Cornwall—can be proved by field evidence to fill spaces that must formerly have been occupied by other rocks.

Among the new features are chapters dealing with the consolidation of magmas; the classification of igneous rocks; changes in composition subsequent to consolidation (including pneu-matolytic ...

Large igneous provinces similar to the North Atlantic Igneous Province are known to have caused profound changes in Earth's climate and catastrophic mass extinctions.

HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky ...

Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains.