Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...
"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...
All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.
Antigorite is the dominant serpentine mineral in serpentinite, a key target mineral for investigating the physical properties of tectonic plate boundaries in subduction zone regions. Now, researchers ...
Small-cap stocks remained on the back foot at the start of the week as sharp swings in commodity prices continued to weigh on ...
It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...
With the recent upgrade of the Feldioara processing plant, securing new domestic uranium sources has become strategically important for Romania's energy independence objectives. History shows the past ...
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How were these rocks formed?

Millions of years shaped these giant formations in Sri Lanka, now standing as landmarks of nature and culture.
NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...
A new study led by Prof. Xiao Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds light on the ore-forming process and key mechanisms of the gold ...
Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...
"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...