Studies of these zircon minerals has given us clues about the Hadean environment, and the formation and evolution of Earth’s ...

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

Naming minerals after people is the largest category of arbitrary names. As of April 2023, a total of 3,294 minerals are named for people, representing 2,742 individuals.

In the far, northwestern corner of Oklahoma's Panhandle, you can find Black Mesa State Park and Black Mesa Nature Preserve.

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Only a few rules are imposed on new mineral names: reuse of an obsolete or discredited name should not happen within 50 years, and new names must not be too similar to existing names.

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s geology program will host a rock and mineral clinic during a local gathering for mineral enthusiasts.

How heating rocks could help solve the climate crisis Scientists at Stanford University developed carbon capture technique they say is more practical and cost-effective ...