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 ...

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (far left), Gilbert Huntington (second left), Tony Fiorillo (center) and Paul McCarthy (seated) look over a geologic map of Alaska to figure out where the best opportunity to find ...

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

Several billion years ago, the oceans were probably not as hot as often assumed, but were instead at much more moderate temperatures. This is the conclusion of a research team from the University of ...

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 ...

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado ” The first inklings of spring are beginning to peep out from the snowbanks and icy roads of Colorado’s Vail Valley and the Rocky Mountains. We don’t see wildflowers yet. The ...

Collectors of all ages have always been interested in rocks and the minerals that make them up. They come in countless shapes, sizes and colors. There are three main types of rocks: sedimentary, ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in China’s ...

Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. One of the best places to see hoodoos is in southern Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park, ...