Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical ...

Throughout, the emphasis is on interpreting the mineralogy and petrology of rock suites in terms of origin and environment, with the first half of the book concentrating on igneous rocks, and the ...

We investigate the minerals, rocks, and melts that make up planetary interiors through a combination of observations from natural samples, high-pressure and temperature experiments, and advanced ...

metamorphic petrology, sediment petrography and diagenesis, environmental mineralogy, atmospheric dusts, soils, extra-terrestrial materials, geoarchaeology, forensic geoscience. Review papers will ...

Glittering blue sapphires, so suggestive of piercing cold, have remarkably hot origins deep beneath the surface. For years, sapphires been turned up in volcanic deposits such as the Volcanic Eifel, ...

an honorary curator of mineralogy and petrology at the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in Scotland, told Live Science. "It's kind of like atoms in a molecule, so minerals are the atoms." ...

A U.S. senator wants to ban the import of essential minerals from Russia such as platinum, palladium and copper with ...

The two bills are intended to stimulate innovation in the U.S. to produce technologies for identifying, mining, processing ...

Fossils of pterosaurs, stegosaurs, plesiosaurs, and more - this dinosaur fossil site in Southwest China's Sichuan Province ...