I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that suggests California is 'peeling apart' deep beneath Earth's surface. This finding may help explain how the land we live on formed.

at a mid-ocean ridge where vast amounts of magma rush to the surface and form new oceanic crust. As this magma migrates towards Earth’s surface, it cools down and new minerals begin to form.

South West Pinnacle Exploration Ltd. through its' Joint Venture Company namely M/s Al Hadeetha Mining LLC (AHML), Oman, has been awarded an exploration & Mining block 22B, in IZKI Town of Oman for ...

Thanks to their relatively higher proportions of minerals that include silicates, aluminium, and potassium, the chunks of rock we live upon typically rise a touch higher than the submerged chunks of ...

And the orange color is distinctive because of the orange minerals inside of the granite ... of magma welled up into the North American crust, down in California and Mexico.

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...