BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

It is an important property in geology and engineering, influencing heat transfer in rocks and minerals. Porosity: The measure of void spaces in a material, which affects its ability to hold ...

An igneous rock has come to be regarded, more constantly than before, not merely as a mineral-aggregate, but as-the product of consolidation of a molten rock-magma; and consideration has been ...

"Au” means gold. "assay” in economic geology, means to analyse the proportions of metal in a rock or overburden sample; to test an ore or mineral for composition, purity, weight or other properties of ...

Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...

They form in sedimentary rocks like limestone, where mineral-rich water flows into ... but it’s an intriguing geology quest. Finding and extracting thundereggs requires knowledge of geology ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

"Au" means gold. "assay" in economic geology, means to analyse the proportions of metal in a rock or overburden sample; to test an ore or mineral for composition, purity, weight or other properties of ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

One of the shop’s most popular attractions is its selection of geodes. These unassuming round rocks hold a secret: crack them ...