"We're constantly finding new minerals, because we're exploring areas that might have conditions we didn't know about," Anderson said. There are three main types of rock — igneous, sedimentary and ...

The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all ...

Together, retired earth science teachers Eugene Genova and Ron Russ travel far and wide searching for fossils.

A DISCUSSION on the origin of igneous rocks was held in Section C (Geology ... In certain continental regions the sedimentary and granitic layers appear to be separated from a deeper ‘basaltic ...

THE second volume of Prof. Johannsen's work on petrography is both a descriptive petrography of the quartz-bearing igneous rocks and an illustration of the author's proposed new method of ...

Maybe it’s the rocks, maybe it’s the elevation or maybe the animals that live there. The question has fascinated scientists ...

Many kids and some adults enjoy collecting rocks. I still enjoy it but now I only look for rocks that indicate mineral ...

A large igneous province could extrude roughly a million cubic kilometers of volcanic rocks over the span of a million years. “The scale of these volcanic provinces, I think, is very difficult ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats ...

It is exposed at surface with no overburden and is amenable to low cost efficient bulk dredge mining, which will be contained ...