We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

Introduction Have you ever visited a canyon or cave and wondered how those formations came to be? Or observed smooth stones by a river or beach? These results are due to a process called weathering.

While landscaping brings greenery to many people’s minds, rocks are an important part of landscaping, too. Perhaps more accurately a hardscaping element, the various types of landscaping rocks add a ...

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Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Vol. 38, No. 6 (November 2020), pp. 2143-2168 (26 pages) The Paleogene lacustrine mudstone is one of the most important sets of source rocks in Termit Basin, Niger.

NASA's Spirit rover found a new class of rock on Mars that provides additional clues to the planet's watery past. The rock, named "Peace," is an exposure of bedrock in the Columbia Hills within the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. There ...