Volcanologist reveals exactly what happened at Mount Etna - Mount Etna eruptions are commonly described as ‘Strombolian ...

Granite and other rocks made from recycled magma Igneous rocks, which form from magma (which is called lava when it erupts on the surface), aren’t anything special in our solar system.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

The Perseverance rover collected samples from sites on the crater floor and identified igneous rocks that, once dated on Earth, will provide a timeline for formation of magma and flow of water on ...

Theoretical modeling provides additional valuable constraints on the interpretation of igneous rocks. Petrographic study coupled with laboratory analysis provides the data necessary to estimate the ...

Before their bodies are burned away by the torrents of magma, that are spewed onto the surface of the planet, they form a fossil in igneous rock. Alternatively, fossils sometimes appear in slabs of ...

A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy's Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear ...

The findings also point to a hitherto unknown diversity in magma throughout the lunar crust ... a highly shocked igneous rock called magnesian anorthosite and a pyroclastic glass bead.

A half century later, crystals of the mineral zircon inside a coarse-grained igneous rock fragment ... This blasted magma - molten rock - into space, forming a debris disk that orbited Earth ...

The age of the zircon reveals when the magma solidified — in this case ... keep your eye out for coarse-grained crystalline igneous rocks —you may just be looking at a rock that formed ...