If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

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 ...

There are two other types of rocks. 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 ...

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 ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

His research interests range from the evolution of metamorphic rocks in Montana and Greece to atomic diffusion measurements in the experimental petrology lab (“cooking rocks”). A common theme of his ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Both materials are commonly found in volcanic and metamorphic rocks on Earth. Atoko Point also probably originated elsewhere further up-slope, and mission scientists expect to find many other odd ...

The guide has two main sections: background information on the structure and forces affecting the Earth in relation to rock formation a more practical hand-specimen guide with examples of rock samples ...