Scientists study how industrial waste like slag hardens into sedimentary rocks, adversely affecting the environment but also ...

Mars, often referred to as the Red Planet, has become the current obsession for scientists all around the world, with ...

Fine-grained sedimentary rocks, commonly referred to as "shale" or "mudstone", constitute approximately two thirds of the sedimentary column on Earth, and are nonetheless the least understood ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captures an eerie rock on Mars resembling a decaying human head, triggering pareidolia.

Mars pareidolia strikes again. An image captured by the Perseverance rover in the course of its duties is one of the ...

A rock is an assemblage of mineral grains..... Each tetrahedron may be isolated from one another or they may be bonded together covalently by sharing oxygen atoms between adjacent tetrahedra. In this ...

Todd Braun is a well-known stone artist whose work is found in many public places and private gardens in Manitoba. Perhaps ...

“A sedimentary basin is any hollow on the ... Fragments of volcanic rock and ash, for example, contain particles of iron, which align themselves with magnetic north. This alignment can help ...

Keeping sink areas dry is a continual task, unless you have one of these stone trays. Wave goodbye to wiping up water every ...

Changing sea level exerts a strong influence on sedimentation. In the coastal environment rising sea level causes a transgression or shoreward migration of the coastline (Fig. 6-6). The beach moves ...

For one, sedimentary rocks from that time have a stunningly high amount of meteorite debris ... but he adds that “the data are not yet sufficient to say that the Earth indeed had rings.” One ...

Midway along Ireland’s Atlantic Coast lies the Burren, an otherworldly landscape whose mesmerising limestone formations have ...