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 ...

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Mount Etna eruptions are commonly described as ‘Strombolian eruptions’ – though that may not apply to this event ...

Volcanic blast which sent tourists fleeing was most powerful in four years - Footage shared on social media shows huge clouds ...

Igneous classification of float rocks is challenging because of the following ... Crystal fractionation of a subalkaline and an alkaline magma is required to form the observed minerals. These results ...

Olivine from an unmineralized but sparsely serpentinized portion of the Tamarack Intrusive Complex has O isotope compositions from 5.2 to 5.5 parts per thousand, indicating a fraction of a percent ...

Researcher Kurt Panter displays rocks containing pyroexene during an recent interview. He recently completed his 11th research expedition to Anarctica.