What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

There are three main rock types: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. These rocks are made of minerals that all have ...

An igneous rock has come to be regarded, more constantly than before, not merely as a mineral-aggregate, but as-the product of consolidation of a molten rock-magma; and consideration has been ...

Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus, Yellowstone National Park's scenery and wildlife make it one of the biggest draws for tourists in the US. But those famous ...

Q4-2024 gold production of 10,022 ounces, the highest in the past 5 years. FY2024 gold production of 37,520 ounces, a 13.2% increase on FY2023 gold production. Commissioned Coringa classification ...

According to an analysis published last week in the journal Nature, while a significant amount of magma is beneath the Yellowstone Caldera, it is stored in small, separate pockets rather than a ...

A team of USGS scientists, who surveyed the park’s underground magma reservoirs, recently confirmed the standard response, “probably not any time soon.” But they have pointed out that the area where ...

These structures—detected at depths of 10–30 kilometers—are similar to sills, or flat sheets of igneous rock that form ... should the magma become buoyant enough to ascend to the surface.

It is fed by the "Yellowstone Hotspot," where hot plumes of magma rise from deep within the Earth's mantle. In the last 2.1 million years, the complex has undergone three major caldera-forming ...