If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the ...

Because the glacial erratics that we find in southwestern Ohio come from such a large area, they consist of a wide variety of rock types, including igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. These ...

Metamorphic rocks are also formed because ... The slow continuous process of rock transformation is called the rock cycle. It was used to build the Mourne Wall between 1904 and 1922, which was ...

All plants require 17 elements to complete their life cycle, and an additional four ... and they are usually derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks in soil (Lapidus 1987).

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...