International Rock Day is observed every year on July 13 to recognise the natural wonders of rocks and stones and their ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

The most common intrusive igneous rock in the area is known as diabase. Diabase is considered a medium-colored igneous rock composed of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, olivine, magnetite and, ilmenite.

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 ...

Dehradun: Scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) have found that parts of Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern Himalayas saw intens.

Igneous rocks are formed from molten material that cools and crystallizes below the Earth’s surface; dikes occur when this rock pushes its way into existing joint fractures. Types include aplite ...

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

The APXS analyses, however, produced some unanticipated results. Far from being similar in its chemical composition to the many martian igneous rocks analyzed by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers ...

The third class of rock, which covers about 1 percent of the earth’s crust, are metamorphic. These rocks were originally sedimentary or igneous and, through the stresses and tensions placed onto ...

Now researchers have discovered a new kind of igneous rock, plastistone, formed almost completely from plastic, on Trindade Island, a volcanic island more than 600 miles east of Espírito Santo in ...