In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

Twelve whole-rock samples of the gold mineralization, representing varied degrees of alteration, from rocks with preserved igneous textures to the ore (quartz-carbonate-sulfide-chlorite), were studied ...

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.

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.

This 1930s educational film explores the natural landscapes, geological formations, and agricultural practices of the time. It features scenes of farmers tilling soil, majestic mountain roads ...

First Phosphate properties consist of rare anorthosite igneous phosphate rock that generally yields high purity phosphate material devoid of high concentrations of harmful elements.

The best things we saw at AVLfest 2024, including Blitzen Trapper and Gyasi.