Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

This action is believed to account directly or indirectly for many varieties of igneous rock. Igneous Rocks and their Origin. By Prof. R. A. Daly. Pp. xxii + 563.

These types of igneous formations are called cumulate, which means they formed by the settling of iron- and magnesium-enriched olivine and the subsequent multi-stage cooling of a thick magma body ...

Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move, according to research published in the journal Nature, where a team of scientists ...

Yellowstone's supervolcano, which would cause mass destruction when it erupts next, is holding twice the amount of magma than previously thought, a new study reveals. The discovery was made by ...

Petrographic study coupled with laboratory analysis provides the data necessary to estimate the intensive parameters of magma genesis and crystallization, the character of possible magma sources, as ...

Granite and other rocks made from recycled magma Igneous rocks, which form from magma (which is called lava when it erupts on the surface), aren’t anything special in our solar system.

The team also compared the Chang'e 5 regolith samples with lunar material brought back to Earth by NASA's Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. The researchers found three exotic igneous clasts ...