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A new study has revealed the fascinating origins of some of the world’s largest copper deposits, located in the Gangdese Belt ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

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.

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 ...

For instance, volcanic blasts produce plumes of ash that occasionally bury organisms. Before their bodies are burned away by the torrents of magma, that are spewed onto the surface of the planet, they ...

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 ...

Jeff Nelson - MS Candidate Research Statement Igneous petrology has entered a quantitative stage of development that combines classical approaches (i.e. field mapping, petrographic study) with ...

The rocks could provide vital information about the geological diversity of the moon's surface and the processes that create its dust and dirt.