Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move, according to research published in the journal Nature, where a team of scientists said they found a build-up in a corner of a vast 50 kilometre by 70 ...

These types of igneous formations are called cumulate, which means they formed by the settling of iron- and magnesium-enriched olivine and the subsequent multi-stage cooling of a thick magma body.

The new discovery by geoscientists from the University of Aberdeen provides the strongest evidence yet that some of ...

Granite and other rocks made from recycled magma Igneous rocks, which form from magma (which is called lava when it erupts on the surface), aren’t anything special in our solar system.

Petrographic study coupled with laboratory analysis provides the data necessary to estimate the intensive parameters of magma genesis and crystallization, the character of possible magma sources, as ...