These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat, pressure or both. One of the great joys in studying metamorphic rocks lies in microanalysis of their minerals. With ...
The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, with their famous stalactites and stalagmites, or Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest cave system in the world, are prime examples of this type of cave. Girard ...
"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 ...