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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The easternmost portion of the granite of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, was regarded by C. K. Leith as intrusive in the Animikian iron formation, and mapped as Embarras granite. Obervations in the ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Organic globules in the Tumbiana stromatolites. It has been suggested that late Archaean ocean compositions favoured aragonite precipitation instead of calcite 25. Several considerations ...

Bengaluru, known for its technological advancements, is home to the Peninsular Gneiss, a remarkable rock formation ...

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 ...