The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic ...

The oldest rock in the United States has been discovered in Michigan, with zircons dating back 3.82 billion years.

Curiosity was launched in November 2011 and continues to explore Mars. The final image below is of a sedimentary rock formation with a “popcorn” texture, discovered by Perseverance.

The rover took three separate rock core samples from the area; two are sedimentary, while the other is silica-cemented carbonate. “It’s not just interesting for life,” Horgan explains.

It features scenes of farmers tilling soil, majestic mountain roads, sedimentary rock formations, and granite and marble quarries. The film also highlights natural phenomena such as volcanic ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China ...

Richard Edan / Getty Images Oil shale is a type of sedimentary rock formation that can be used to produce oil and gas. Oil shale can produce oil and gas because of the presence of kerogen ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car ...

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 ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...