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 ...

Singing rocks? No, this isn't a fantasy movie. It's a unique place in Montana, where boulders make a ringing chime when you ...

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 ...

Hidden beneath our feet, kilometers underground, life has been existing for billions of years. A recent discovery may reshape ...

Building upon the award-winning second edition, this comprehensive textbook provides a fundamental understanding of the formative processes of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Encouraging a deeper ...

With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions ...

It shows a curious fracture surface due to a heavy gelignite detonation in finely crystalline “trap” rock. So far as I can remember I had seen other examples of this phenomenon, but ...

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 ...

Before they split apart, the two had been intimately linked at least since the formation of these 700-million-year-old igneous rocks. Together they stayed, along with the rest of Gondwana ...

The tragic but fascinating sight of the streets of Pompei, an ancient city destroyed by avolcano eruption. The city was well preserved under the layers of igneous rock. The streetstake visitors back ...

is supplied from igneous rock from Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland. These igneous phosphate deposits are mostly from the Khibiny Alkalic Igneous Complex (Notholt, 1979) and the Kovdor ...