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

When molten rock cools and hardens it forms igneous rock. Layers of igneous rock are called igneous ‘intrusions’ because it intrudes into other rock layers. They can form in different shapes ...

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

Freya Castle is believed to be a metamorphic rock, which if true could give more detailed information about Mars' volcanic ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock ... the softer surrounding land and some of the outer layers of the extremely hard rock volcanic plug. That sculpted the rock, giving it the shape we can ...

A robot on the hunt for signs of alien life on Mars has taken a huge battering, shock new images released by Nasa show. The ...

Lithosphere - The outermost brittle layer of the earth is the lithosphere. Metamorphic Rock - Metamorphic rocks are the result of the transformation of preexisting rocks (igneous, sedimentary, or ...

First Phosphate believes that Quebec igneous anorthosite phosphate rock is an untapped source of high purity phosphate which ...

Igneous rocks tend to be grainy, sedimentary rocks often show layers, and metamorphic rocks can have a swirled appearance.

New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked in the planet's clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a chain ...

Igneous rocks form from the solidification of molten ... involves mineral-rich water seeping into the rhyolitic ash layers.

Mars’ Early Thick Atmosphere Could Be Locked Up in the Planet’s Clay Surface Researchers from MIT suggest that Mars' once ...