Tag: rock

At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils. These are not any old fossils, but 75-million-year-old...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake). This event caused severe shaking and substantial damage in Myanmar and...

Rock diversity along rim of Jezero Crater offers a wide glimpse of Martian history

Scientists with NASA's Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero...

Study suggests ancient hominins used unmodified volcanic rock spheres as tools

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres may have been used by hominin species...

‘Serrated blade’ stuck in rock on UK beach is ancient sea creature tooth, experts say

A "serrated blade" found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a "nearly perfect" prehistoric shark tooth, experts say. It...

NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian...

Prehistoric rock in Japan reveals clues to major ocean anoxic event

By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely refined the timing and duration of...

Drought imperils Zimbabwe’s ancient rock art, spurring efforts to preserve and date it

Sketched onto the walls of a granite outcropping in the hills of southern Zimbabwe, tall, rust-red human figures gather around groups of antelopes and...

Geologist identifies metamorphic rock as a crucial feature of the ancient Earth’s carbon cycle

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...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock

Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before...

Alpine rock reveals dynamics of plate movements in Earth’s interior

Examining how plates move in Earth’s mantle and how mountains form is no easy feat. Certain rocks that have sunk deep into Earth’s interior...

Quakes rock southwestern Iceland as volcanic eruption looms

Iceland declared a state of emergency on Friday after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the country's southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, in what could be...

Greenlandic glacial rock flour can help fight climate change, show two new studies

The first experiments with glacial rock flour from Greenland show that it can capture significant amounts of CO2 and provide a wider array of...

Tracing Earth’s past in prehistoric rock deposits

What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet's atmosphere was being oxygenated? By analyzing ancient dolomite (carbonate) deposits found...

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