The assumption that rocks have to be old and hard is an “urban legend,” says geologist Jan Zalasiewicz. He is a former head ...

What would happen if you made small balls of different colored clay, put them all together between boards and squeezed them ...

These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat, pressure or both. One of the great joys in ...

The continents primarily consist of cratons and orogenic belts, of which cratons predominantly originated 1.8 billion years ago, serving as crucial constituents of the Earth’s surface. Most of the ...

It integrates a systematic account of the mineralogical changes accompanying metamorphism of the major rock types with discussion of the conditions and settings in which they formed. The use of ...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the ...

Chinese offshore operator CNOOC Ltd has kicked off drilling at what it claimed to be the world largest oilfield in ...

The Moine Schist, the puzzling old rock found on top of younger rock here, is called a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks are created when other types of rock become very hot or are squeezed ...

Earth is a stressed planet. As plates move, magma rises, and glaciers melt—just to mention a few scenarios—rocks are subject to varying pressure and compressional and extensional forces.

By Rathindra Kuruwita The problems facing 17,000 families, affected by the negative environmental impacts of the Uma Oya ...

Chinese offshore operator CNOOC Ltd has kicked off drilling at what it claimed to be the world largest oilfield in ...