As stated, rocks play an important role in our everyday lives, and understanding the rock cycle gives us a better understanding as to how we can use them for our benefit. The breakdown of rocks ...

Natural cement found in industrial waste reacts with ocean water to form rocks in just 35 years, instead of millions.

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

The waste material humans are producing in creating the modern world is going to have an "irreversible impact on our future".

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31. During the Proterozoic Eon—2.5 billion years to 543 million years ago ...