If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

This rock was one of the most appealing features of our new home on Mill River Lane in Shelburne. It was different shades of ...

It integrates a systematic account of the mineralogical changes accompanying metamorphism of the major rock types with discussion of the conditions and settings in which they formed. The use of ...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the ...

The Moine Schist, the puzzling old rock found on top of younger rock here, is called a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks are created when other types of rock become very hot or are squeezed ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...