Igneous rocks (named from the Greek word for fire) form when hot, molten rock (magma) crystallizes and solidifies. The magma originates deep within the Earth near active plate boundaries or hot spots, ...

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Vol. 2, Geoscience and Man, Volume 3. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting, October 1969 (1971), pp. 83-92 ...

The trick to a successful search for fossils is finding the proper place. After all, paleontologists rarely select their sites at random. Instead, they consider an assortment of areas — comparing the ...

Human activity has significantly altered the earth’s landscape — so much so that many scientists have said the planet began a new geological chapter called the Anthropocene era. Many of these changes ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...