Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Igneous rocks are formed from cooling magma deep in Earth's crust or mantle. This cooling magma crystalizes to form rocks like the granite in your house. A rock that cools within Earth's crust ...

Magmas rich in felsic components such as quartz and orthoclase feldspar are higher in silica than those rich in igneous rocks. Magmas with a high silica content are viscous. can be thought of as the ...

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 ...

Instead, it cools and solidifies to form coarser-grained igneous rocks beneath the ground. ... The magma intrusions that formed range in size from many kilometres to just a few centimetres, ...

Magma is a complex mixture of solids, liquids, and gases that move about and often separate, ... an igneous petrologist at the University of Cambridge, ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...