Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide—could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major earthquakes, ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

The badlands also contain hoodoos and a petrified forest. Frank Krahmer/Masterfile/Corbis The formations are comprised of sedimentary rocks like sandstone, shale and mudstone. Frank Krahmer/Masterfile ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Listen to presenter, Bernie Hobbs, explain the forces that transform sedimentary rocks to metamorphic ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock ...