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Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...
S cientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.
Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The cool-toned crystal-studded ensemble is constructed in a rich gradient of deep sapphire hues melting into aquamarine and icy silver. It also features a bodice heavily embellished with ...
Understanding magmatic processes is critical to understanding Mars as a system, butCuriosity'sinvestigation of dominantly sedimentary rocks has made it difficult to constrain igneous processes.
Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich, silica-poor magmas. That’s how it got its name—soda + lithos, or “sodium stone," according to Rock Your World gem & art ...
“These rocks are unimaginably difficult to find,” says Ackerson. “You could be standing with one foot on a 3.6-billion-year-old rock and the other foot on one that’s four billion years old.” ...
In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the ...
He’s missing the Rock Crystals that other Hexga’s like him have, and given that he can’t move right now, Expedition 33 are the only folk who can help. Here’s how to find Rock Crystals for ...