Looking at an igneous rock, such as the granite along Stockton Hill Road at milepost 10, you’ll see a variety of minerals.

Looking at an igneous rock, such as the granite along Stockton Hill Road at milepost 10, you’ll see a variety of minerals. Some are black, others pink and some look glassy. If the rock was ...

Central Europe is typically not on most people's radar when it comes to assessing volcanic risk. However, as recently as ...

ONLY detailed sampling of early weathering stages combined with suitable analytical techniques can reveal the presence of gibbsite as a primary weathering product in certain weathering crusts of ...

Like other igneous rocks, the glossy glass originates from molten rock that has been spewed out from the bowels of the Earth ...

In connection with the closing of the Second Tranche, Gilles Laverdiere, the Chief Geologist of the Company, has purchased a ...

The possible combinations of these minerals are endless. Rocks also differ based on how they were formed. Igneous rocks form out of cooling lava or magma. Sedimentary rocks develop from eroded ...

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 ...

Paleontologists may smile at the state’s motto, “Under God, the People Rule,” in this locale where dinosaurs dominated for ...

The classification of igneous rocks he has devised is based upon a sound plan, just as Esperanto is, but it may fail for the same reason that artificial languages fail, because it is too clean-cut ...

But some volcanos are hotter than others. At Ol Doinyo Lengai in northern Tanzania for instance, the lava flows at ...