Abigail Chobany, a master's student in the University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Gottfried Novik, Cand. Tech. Sc., is reader in rock physics at the Moscow Mining Institute. Apart from the investigation of the physical properties of rocks, the main line of his work is the breaking ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

This study advances gold exploration in Egypt's Central Eastern Desert using remote sensing and microanalytical techniques to ...