When we look at the marvels of modern construction - soaring skyscrapers, sprawling industries, intricate networks of highway and railway bridges and embankments, airports, and energy infrastructure - ...

Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

Newly found 600-million-year-old clues in the Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents ...

Scientists Discover Two Massive Structures Deep Within Earth’s Mantle, Say It Could Be Remains of Ancient Planet For decades, ...

In a recent study in the journal Sedimentologika, for example, researchers documented a new kind of sedimentary rock made from coastal slag deposits in the U.K. This rock follows other formations ...

In hematite-laced sedimentary rocks on Earth, chemical reactions can ... Cheyava Falls’ spots unquestionably bear uncanny resemblance to structures that, when found in rocks from Earth’s ...

"Sedimentary rocks are principally composed of minerals ... It was also updated to note that the crystal structure dictates a mineral's physical properties. Sascha is a U.K.-based staff writer ...

Detailed close-up of exposed sedimentary rock layers, showing a spectrum of brown ... Mudcracks or desiccation cracks or mud cracks are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and ...

Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries. These rocks form when molten plastic cools within a ...

After several years of extensive exploration, a series of oil and gas reservoirs or structures have ... Herein, sedimentary facies, the plane distribution of dark mudstone, geochemical characteristics ...