Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

Tired of running out of blocks? 🪨💥 In this Minecraft tutorial, I’ll show you how to build the Ultimate Rock Farm — combining cobblestone, stone, and basalt generators into one efficient system using ...

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

Videos shared on social media showed tourists running along a path on the side of the volcano as smoke billowed in the ...

The Axial Seamount last erupted in 2015, triggering roughly 8,000 earthquakes , producing 450-foot-thick lava flows and causing the bottom of the ocean to sink nearly eight feet. William Wilcock ...

Let’s take a closer look at these textures as they would be observed ... If these bubbles are trapped in the lava, the final solidified rock will have small holes, called vesicles, that are ...

Editor's note:Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Drew White, graduate ...

Agates are formed from silica solutions filling gas bubbles in lava rocks, creating bands of color. The best time to find agates in Michigan is after a storm. Popular Michigan agate hunting ...