Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why don’t rocks burn? – Luke, age 4, New Market, ...

About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

One place where this has happened is the Gardar Igneous Complex in Southern ... Fortunately, there are crystals of clinopyroxene within many of the rocks in the Benolong Volcanic Suite.

Large areas of Yanshan period granites with high heat production values (3–10 μW/m 3) and mantle plume around Hainan province co-exist in Igneous Rocks Regions of South ... presumed to be partial melt ...

Here on Earth, rare-earth minerals are often found as crystals in igneous rock, dissolved in volcanic clays, or in alluvial sand deposits. Heavy as they are, they make their way to the surface in ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock feature. They form when molten rock cools below the surface of the Earth. Join Isla and Connor as they explore igneous rock landscape features at Traprain Law ...

One of the primary mission objectives is to search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, and igneous rocks and regolith examined in the area have also given insight into a time in the planet's ...