Our last three installments of Colored Stones Unearthed have focused on geological processes that form gemstones naturally in the earth. We detailed gemstones formed in magmatic, metamorphic, and ...

Fossils are the remains or traces left behind by life forms that existed long ago and are normally found in sedimentary rocks. They are usually very small, like micro shells or pollen, and sometimes ...

New research from NYU Abu Dhabi reveals that ancient sand dunes in Mars’ Gale Crater once interacted with underground water, suggesting the planet may have stayed habitable far longer than scientists ...

Research in the UAE deserts has helped confirm past subsurface water flow on Mars, potentially extending its habitability period. Mars' Gale crater showed ancient sand dunes turned into rock by water ...

Et le plus étonnant dans tout ça c’est que nous y avons grandement participé. Combien de temps faut-il pour que des roches se forment ? Vous allez sûrement nous répondre qu’il faudrait des milliers ou ...

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...

A discarded can tab, locked inside a new type of rock on England’s Cumbrian coast, tells a startling story about what happens when industry and nature collide. Geologists have confirmed that steel ...

Tout commence sur la côte nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, à Derwent Howe, un site abandonné autrefois dédié à la sidérurgie. Aujourd’hui, les falaises noires de scories – ces résidus issus de la fusion du ...

Researchers discovered that industrial slag can turn into solid rock in just 35 years. The study analysed a two-kilometer stretch of slag deposits, revealing rapid lithification. Dr Amanda Owen stated ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the formation of rock. It seems that industrial waste known as slag that is generated by the steel industry can turn into new, solid rock within about ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown. An aluminium drinks can tab made since 1989 ...

An aluminum tab from a drinks can found encased in a new form of rock on the Cumbrian coastline has helped provide scientists with a shocking new insight into the impact of human activity on Earth's ...