A new study of lunar rocks suggests Earth's water might not have come from meteorites

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Strange Red Rocks in Australia Are Challenging Long-Held Ideas About Fossils

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...
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Antarctica’s pink granite boulders expose a hidden 60‑mile‑wide stone giant

Far beneath the creaking surface of West Antarctica, scientists have uncovered a 60‑mile‑wide block of granite that rivals ...
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Thundereggs Are Nature’s “Loot Boxes” and Can Hold Hold Geological Masterpieces Inside

Thundereggs look like regular rocks from the outside, but contain intricate and colorful mineral patterns inside — often made ...
Indian Defence Review

An “Unknown Life Form” Built Mysterious Structures in the Namibian Desert Over a Million Years Ago

A mysterious network of tunnels carved into solid rock is forcing scientists to reconsider the limits of ancient life on ...
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Geologists find fossils of unexpected creatures in Grand Canyon rocks

For more than a century, the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon were considered old news, having been carefully mapped, named, and neatly slotted into geology textbooks. But a closer look at those ...
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison Fact Sheet

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is home to some of the steepest cliffs, oldest rock, and craggiest spires in North America. The Gunnison River and the forces of weathering have sculpted ...
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Simulation of geological graphene genesis by the piston-cylinder apparatus

Stable natural graphene occurs in graphite- and phyllosilicate-bearing low-grade metamorphic rocks. The present work simulates the process of geological formation of graphene using a piston-cylinder ...
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Wu, H. L., & Chi, S. L. (2003). Micro-Structural Overpressure Mechanizm and the Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphic Rocks Formation. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 19, 739-744.

ABSTRACT: P-T trajectories based on depth-controlled metamorphism have been questioned by some scholars, as they only consider static rock pressure and ignore fluid pressure, tectonic stress, and ...
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Wen, F., Tian, Z. H., Liu, P. H. et al. (2020). A Case Study of Barrovian Metamorphic Zone of Langzishan Formation of Northern Liaohe Group, Liaodong Peninsula. Earth Science ...

ABSTRACT: P-T trajectories based on depth-controlled metamorphism have been questioned by some scholars, as they only consider static rock pressure and ignore fluid pressure, tectonic stress, and ...
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Person Dies After Falling Around 150 Feet from Colorado Rock Formation: 'Our Hearts Are with the Victim’s Loved Ones,' Rescuers Say

The individual, whose identity and gender has not yet been made public, died on July 24 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was ...
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Pope Leo XIV Gives Priests 3 Tips to Build a Solid Catholic Formation On ‘Rock’

Pope Leo XIV offered three brief suggestions to two groups of priests he met at the Vatican on Friday morning, saying a “solid and integral formation” is essential for all Catholic faithful but ...