A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

After reclassifying all of Earth's minerals based on where and how they formed, geologists ended up with a catalog of more than 10,000 kinds. Search for: Science ...

The work is published by Earth and Planetary Science Letters.. Mineral evolution is an approach to understanding Earth's changing near-surface geochemistry. All chemical elements were present from ...

A new look at the ‘mineral kingdom’ may transform how we search for life. Research also shows Earth may have been ready for life to form earlier than typically thought ...

According to a paper published in the April 1 issue of the journal Nature, breakdown of the mineral serpentine provides enough wiggle room to trigger an earthquake.

Science Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it ... Earth has more than 10,000 kinds of minerals. ... a geologist at Oxford University who also wasn’t an author on the paper.

Quartz, diamond, calcite, and pyrite are a few of the most famous mineral “species,” according to traditional systems of classification. Yet, two papers published in American Mineralogist have ...

Most minerals form in just one of these ways, while nine can be formed in more than 15 different ways. Pyrite, or fool’s gold, has come from 21 distinct origins, the most of any mineral.

Mineral evolution is a new way to look at our planet's history. It's the study of the increasing diversity and characteristics of Earth's near-surface minerals, from the dozen that arrived on ...

It is the most abundant mineral on Earth, and makes up about 38 percent of the planet's volume. But it's only stable at very high pressures and temperatures, so for decades, researchers had only ...

The work is published by Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Mineral evolution is an approach to understanding Earth’s changing near-surface geochemistry.