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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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