A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Curiosity rover cracked open a Martian rock, revealing a sight never before seen on Mars - a dazzling display of yellow ...

Right: OH-defects in young (0.3 Gyr) Variscan granites are one order of magnitude higher than in old (0.9-1.8 Gyr) Proterozoic granites from Scandinavia . The OH-content is reflected in recent ...

When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock in May last year, the rock broke open, revealing yellow crystals of elemental sulfur: brimstone. Although sulfates are fairly ...

The zircon crystals were selected under a stereomicroscope ... 9C to 9E), indicating that its primary source was the Cuiú-Cuiú Arc igneous rocks. It was not possible to properly date amphibolite MV-59 ...

One place where this has happened is the Gardar Igneous Complex in Southern Greenland ... Fortunately, there are crystals of clinopyroxene within many of the rocks in the Benolong Volcanic Suite. This ...

Wild Earth Rocks is where crystals sparkle, people find gifts and young geologists dream. 11-year-old Paul Stevens became intrigued by rocks when he was around 6, looking for them in his yard ...