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Like other igneous rocks, the glossy glass originates from molten rock that has been spewed out from the bowels of the Earth via volcanoes. Before we get into the snowflakes, obsidian is formed ...

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By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the ... These aren't ordinary volcanoes but large igneous provinces that erupt up to a million cubic kilometers of basalt over several ...

The rocks, or tuffs, formed from volcanic ash that settled and solidified ... the eruption of the Ontong Java Nui complex, an enormous igneous province about the size of Alaska located in the ...

In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can ...

The impacts that created the Moon’s basins were intense enough to not just melt rock but also to influence volcanic flows from the Moon ... a layer of something called lunar breccia, a type of igneous ...

Petrology is the study of the macroscopic and microscopic mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks. In addition to assessing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks that are accessible ...

A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only one region is likely to host liquid magma in the long ...