Geologists have shed light on how silica-rich rocks, called the Wolf crater complex, formed in the southern hemisphere on the near side of the Moon 1. The silicic rocks formed in the lunar crust ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock feature. They form when molten rock cools below the surface of the Earth. Join Isla and Connor as they explore igneous rock landscape features at Traprain Law ...

Researchers say they finally know how the fault that gave rise to Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, formed.

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered.

Moonrock was formed 3.5 billion years ago from magma type unique to the moon, scientists have revealed. The presence of rocks, some dwarfing the astronauts who have stepped onto the lunar surface ...

Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

They decrease in age, structurally, downward." This decrease in age is an effect of a phenomenon called inverted metamorphism, whereby rocks formed under high temperatures and pressures are found ...