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 ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

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 ...

There are three main types of rock — igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic — with varying mineral mixes depending on where and how the rock came to be. Igneous rocks — which form as magma ...

There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all fossils are preserved in sedimentary rock. Organisms that live in topographically low places (such ...

Researchers still puzzle over exactly how Roman concrete was made, but they have a few clues, including many of its ...

Unlike the sedimentary rocks that make up Bryce Canyon's hoodoos, the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia in Göreme, Turkey, are primarily composed of volcanic rock—namely, a thick layer of ashy tuff ...

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 ...