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.

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

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.

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 ...

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

Rock record illuminates oxygen history Date: May 29, 2025 Source: Syracuse University Summary: A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million ...