one of the three main rock types; formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...

BAS, M. J. LE 2001. Report of the Working Party on the classification of the lunar igneous rocks. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 36, Issue. 9, p. 1183.

Scientists found living microbes in a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, providing insights into early life on Earth ...

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 ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

The BIC made of layers of igneous rock in a basin shape ... on its previous work to perfect a technique involving three types of imaging – infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy and ...

The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa ... its previous work to perfect a technique involving three types of imaging -- infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

"We hope that as we continue to drive uphill, Perseverance will encounter an outcrop of this new rock type so that more detailed ... could be the result of igneous or metamorphic processes.