Basalt is one common bedrock. It's a volcanic (igneous) rock resulting from cooled lava with a low amount of silica. It's often black or dark gray and used in floor tiles or cobblestones.

The Petratherm team, while working on a different prospect to the north of Muckanippie, noted the existence of an unusual ...

“Though we are 18 islands, we often joke that (because of the tunnels) we defy the fact that we are islands,” says Súsanna Sørensen, marketing manager of Visit Faroe Islands. Located in the North ...

The latest example achieves that goal through the assistance of scorched igneous rock from an Icelandic volcano ... which introduces dark roast coffee and coconut flavors. Both are set to retail ...

The Baby Head Cemetery, despite its unsettling name (which comes from a nearby geographic feature), offers a peaceful spot ...

Detrital zircon U-Pb dating; Sm-Nd isotopes provenance; Carrancas Formation; Moema Laminite; Bambuí Group Within this debate we present new Sm-Nd data for the siliciclastic rocks of the Bambuí ...

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

Dark-rimmed ‘leopard spots’ in a rock studied by the rover last year could be the remains of Martian microbial activity, researchers said at a conference today. The announcement comes loaded ...

Last Friday, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made an appearance on "WWE SmackDown," sharing news about next year's WWE WrestleMania 42 and delivering a divisive promo aimed at Undisputed WWE Champion ...