The team has discovered high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks, and unearthed crucial ... unconventional fossil fuel resources. These have helped in the discovery of several ...

Numerical ages estimate the date of a geological event and can sometimes reveal quite precisely when a fossil species existed in time. Third, magnetism in rocks can be used to estimate the age of ...

and/or fossils. Lithification - Solidification of sediment into rock. Lithification typically involves compaction, from the weight of overlying sediments, and cementation, caused by the precipitation ...

Find out more about available formats and browse any associated online resources. All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and ...

In Guizhou Province, China, a cliff named Chan Da Ya has intrigued locals and tourists with its ability to produce large ...

field guide to common fossils in Britain, covering nearly 90 fossil groups interactive map of Britain and geological map overlay illustrations and data for more than 1,200 fossils in the Museum ...

The Moine Schist, the puzzling old rock found on top of younger rock here, is called a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks are created when other types of rock become very hot or are squeezed ...

The Science Education Center houses thousands of rock and mineral samples in what is known as "The Rock & Mineral Room." The entire collection can be viewed by clicking on each of the virtual drawers ...

It can take hours, months and even years to properly prepare a fossil. Most of this work is done by fossil preparators - experts in the tools and techniques needed to release specimens from the rock ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...