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 ...

Researchers have discovered microdiamonds in the Nishisonogi metamorphic rock formation in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Microdiamonds in metamorphic rocks are important minerals because they form in ...

Metamorphic rock is the result of the transformation of a pre-existing rock type, the protolith, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form". The protolith is subjected to heat and ...

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 ...

Last week, Professor of Earth & Oceanographic Science Rachel Beane, with help from students, gave a talk on the craggy coast of Bailey Island, inviting the public to come learn about the unusual rock ...

If you’ve ever studied geography, looked at fossils in a museum, or even looked up at a craggy cliffside or a steep mountain, you’ll know that rocks usually take millions of years to form. However, ...

Temperature and pressure conditions of metamorphism in the Peavy Node area in northern Michigan have been estimated from the garnet-biotite geothermometer and garnet-plagioclase-aluminosilicate-quartz ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A soaring mountain range as tall as the Himalayas once towered over the U.S. East Coast. Some 20 ...

Rock is a solid mass of minerals that have joined together over time. Geology is the study of how the Earth is formed and the things that happen to the Earth. As part of this, geologists study rocks ...

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, invites you to attend a Master’s Thesis Defense by Brianna Bowlby titled “Provenance of the Narragansett ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rockIgneous rocks are those which have been formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock (magma) from underneath the earth’s crust. are formed by magma from the ...