What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why don’t rocks burn? – Luke, age 4, New Market, ...

An igneous rock has come to be regarded, more constantly than before, not merely as a mineral-aggregate, but as-the product of consolidation of a molten rock-magma; and consideration has been ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rockIgneous rocks are those which have been formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock (magma) from underneath the earth’s crust. are formed by magma ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the Red Planet never ...

Igneous and metamorphic petrology is the study of rocks formed from molten material and those that have undergone transformation due to heat and pressure, respectively. Recent research in this ...

By Becky Nelson I have been a rockhound since I was old enough to pick up a pretty rock. My kitchen sink-shelf has several ...

Furthermore, large plutonic masses within Mako-Diale transition zone belong all to three (3) distinct magmatic sources: Koulountou granodiorite, Koulountou and Tinkoto granites are sourced from high-K ...

Anything at all to help document those heady days when heads were in the clouds and young bands were in the dance halls would ...

That’s Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site for you – a hidden gem tucked away in the heart of Texas that’s about to rock ...