Their research delved into nakhlites, a group of igneous rocks that originated on the fourth planet from the sun. By ...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the ...

Igneous rocks underneath the vents are full of ruthenium and the material acts as a powerful catalyst for methane formation. “I first discovered this place in 1997 and it wowed me,” says ...

They look a bit like geodes, but they’re not exactly geodes. There are three types of rock: igneous, metamorphic, and ...

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 ...

A large igneous province (LIP) is a very large accumulation of igneous rocks, coming about when magma travels through the Earth's crust and to the surface, and they often occur at the same time as ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the continental base, in combination with metamorphic rocks ...

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...

The tragic but fascinating sight of the streets of Pompei, an ancient city destroyed by avolcano eruption. The city was well ...