Rocks are forced to change shape at or near plate boundaries. Rocks can experience squeezing, stretching, or pushing in different directions in response to stress. This response depends on the type of ...

Rocks and minerals are closely related, but there are fundamental differences between the two. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

When you're zooming down the highway, seeing billboards, strip malls, and gas stations whipping by, it can be hard to imagine ...

The set of rocks strewn throughout Baltimore likely represent a slice of prehistoric seafloor from a now-vanished ocean. George Guice, a mineralogist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

Prehistoric engravings of giant snakes along South America’s Orinoco river are among the largest examples of rock art we know of anywhere in the world, with some stretching for more than 40 metres.

Handful of lava pebbles thrown into the air. A new study shows how strong shaking at a fault has rocks—briefly—defying gravity. When Julian Lozos, a seismologist at California State University, ...