Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

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The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Oak Brook, Illinois, is exactly that kind of hidden treasure. If you’re wondering what ...

Moving through the museum, you’ll encounter one of its most famous treasures: the Castle Lizzadro. This miniature golden ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Yooperlites can be found as loose pebbles and cobbles along many Lake Superior beaches and even in some inland gravel pits. The stones are derived from igneous rocks near Marathon, Ontario, known ...

Sealing the “Green Gardens” sample — collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from a rock dubbed “Tablelands” along the rim of Jezero Crater on February 16, 2025 — presented an engineering ...

“These rocks are unimaginably difficult to find,” says Ackerson. “You could be standing with one foot on a 3.6-billion-year-old rock and the other foot on one that’s four billion years old.” ...

Because these crater floor samples came from igneous rocks forged in lava flows, they can help scientists understand the chemical composition of Mars’s interior, Wadhwa points out.

“The most well-known example of an unconformity is ‘The Great Unconformity,’ which is a major geologic boundary found throughout North America that separates ancient igneous and metamorphic rocks from ...