Long before we use rocks for these purposes, they undergo a process known plainly as the “rock cycle”, which is a series of processes that create and transform the types of rocks within the Earth’s ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

Igneous and metamorphic rocks on Earth's surface inevitably erode and break ... transformed by geological processes is known as the rock cycle. Some rocks are mono-mineralic, meaning they only ...

When the solid rock in the mantle—the layer ... If this deep water cycle between the mantle and the surface is in balance, Earth’s sea level remains stable. If not, our planet could exist ...

The research, which documents a so-called "rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle," has been reported in the journal Geology. This rock cycle seems to mimic the natural processes of rock formation, but ...

The team warn that the rapid and unplanned-for development of rock around industrial waste ... Cumbria led to their discovery of a new Earth system cycle. Derwent Howe was home to iron and steel ...

Researchers have discovered an accelerated, human-driven rock formation process taking ... the team hopes to continue investigating this new Earth system cycle by analyzing other slag deposits.

The researchers have documented a new “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle”, which mimics natural ... of Glasgow’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences and one of the study’s authors ...