This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. When we look at a rock, we often just focus on its size and appearance. Is it light or heavy? Dark or ...

Rolling dice is an excellent way to emphasize that the rock cycle is deceptively named. Equally importantly, what felt like a failed lesson in volcanoes to me was not noticably catastrophic for my ...

Igneous and metamorphic petrology represent two fundamental branches of geological science that elucidate the formation, transformation, and evolution of Earth’s solid materials. Igneous petrology ...

The rock cycle naturally takes thousands to millions of years, but scientists just identified a new form of rock that cements in under four decades. Researchers believe the natural cements found in ...