The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

The Earth continues its journey. Beneath our feet, a tale not everyone knows. On the surface of history we rest. To look into the crust To look into the rock And see the past firmly pressed. Igneous, ...

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name ...

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (far left), Gilbert Huntington (second left), Tony Fiorillo (center) and Paul McCarthy (seated) look over a geologic map of Alaska to figure out where the best opportunity to find ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...

Several billion years ago, the oceans were probably not as hot as often assumed, but were instead at much more moderate temperatures. This is the conclusion of a research team from the University of ...