As stated, rocks play an important role in our everyday lives, and understanding the rock cycle gives us a better understanding as to how we can use them for our benefit. The breakdown of rocks ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

This recycling of rocks is a process called the rock cycle. Image caption, Arthur’s Seat overlooks Edinburgh and is the remains of an extinct volcano made from igneous rock.

While this isn’t the first time the anthropoclastic rock cycle was recorded, it is the first time researchers could put a definitive timeline on the process.

A rock can begin as one type and can change many times. It can take thousands of years for rocks to weather and erode. This process of changing is called the rock cycle.

The researchers have documented a new “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle” Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of Scotland emailed direct to you. Did you know ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown. An aluminium drinks can tab made since ...

As detailed in a study published April 10 in the journal Geology, the researchers claim to be the first to fully document and date a complete “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle” on land: a ...

Thanks to a coin and a drinks can tab, researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences discovered a new type of rock in West Cumbria, England, which has ...

Liam Squires, a fifth grader in Virginia, found a mistake in a book’s diagram of the rock cycle. The publisher said it was “proud” of his discovery. By Amanda Holpuch Liam Squires, like many ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown.