Those results show that the size of an eruption or asteroid isn’t as important as the type of rocks incinerated. One suspect behind several mass extinctions is a kind of enormous volcanic zone called ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old ...

This article was originally published with the title “Volcanoes, their Causes—Igueous Theory” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 12 (December 1852), p. 93 doi:10.1038 ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock feature. They form when molten rock cools below the surface of the Earth. Join Isla and Connor as they explore igneous rock landscape features at Traprain Law ...

The surprising discovery of volcanic, "igneous," rocks by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on the Jezero Crater's floor could be the key to unlocking Mars' climate history and revealing exactly when ...

A study established a quantitative fracture identification method for the igneous reservoir rock in the Xingcheng group of Xushen gas field, a field near Daqing in northeastern China. The method ...