NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled upon a collection of mysterious Martian rocks, sparking new questions about the Red ...

Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the original solidification of rock or during metamorphism, and they are usually derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks ...

Minerals are chemical compounds which occur ... neutrons and electrons. Igneous rocks are formed from the cooling of molten rock. Molten rock is rock that has been heated to such a high ...

The Journal of Geology, Vol. 23, No. 8, Supplement: The Later Stages of the Evolution of the Igneous Rocks (Nov. - Dec., 1915), pp. 1-91 (91 pages) ...

The Science Education Center houses thousands of rock and mineral samples in what is known as "The Rock & Mineral Room." The entire collection can be viewed by clicking on each of the virtual drawers ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.