Rocks are forced to change shape at or near plate boundaries. Rocks can experience squeezing, stretching, or pushing in different directions in response to stress. This response depends on the type of ...

We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

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 ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Some of the answers appeared to be based on Reddit comments. Google's new search feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to answer users' questions is facing criticism for providing inaccurate ...

Earth has gone through many geologic phases, but it did have one striking period of stasis: Our planet experienced a tropical environment where algae and single-celled organisms flourished for almost ...

Google's new search feature that uses AI to answer some users' questions is facing criticism over its inaccurate responses, including telling users to eat rocks and mix pizza cheese with glue. AI ...

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to microbial metabolism. Their arrangement hints at redox reactions that resemble ...

The facility will showcase thousands of marked examples of rocks and gems from across the world. One wall will feature a Grotto of the Redemption Timeline, while another wall provides a giant map ...