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IN the middle of the last century much interest was shown in the problem of the genesis of igneous rocks, and especially in the manner of origin of diverse rock-types from a common stock or from a ...

It shows a curious fracture surface due to a heavy gelignite detonation in finely crystalline “trap” rock. So far as I can remember I had seen other examples of this phenomenon, but ...

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Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

First Phosphate believes that Quebec igneous anorthosite phosphate rock is an untapped source of high purity phosphate which ...

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Microbes -- alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface ...

With our ideas of volcanoes we always associate the grand and the terrible ; and a volcanic eruption—a huge piece of artillery, with a mouth perhaps miles in circumference, shooting up rocks and ...

Early interpretations suggest that the melting, movement and cooling of magma and lava may have created the rock’s stripes, as igneous rocks ... and perhaps all of Mars,” the agency said.

is supplied from igneous rock from Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland. These igneous phosphate deposits are mostly from the Khibiny Alkalic Igneous Complex (Notholt, 1979) and the Kovdor ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change our understanding of how life evolved on Earth. They found ...