For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in ...

Find out how magma has created igneous rock features with this BBC Bitesize Scotland article for P5, P6, P7 - Second Level CfE ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rock Igneous rocks are those which have been formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock (magma) from underneath the earth’s crust. are formed by magma ...

WRITING with reference to the review of Hatch and Wells' "Petrology of Igneous Rocks", which appeared in NATURE of May 28, p. 952, Dr. A..K. Wells has directed attention to the second paragraph ...

THE direction of remanent magnetization of igneous rocks has recently been examined in detail1 in order to investigate the secular variation in the geomagnetic field, and its relation to the ...

Monomineralic aggregates or glomerocrysts are a distinctive feature of many igneous rocks. Those with crystals joined along prominent euhedral crystal faces form by synneusis while the mineral is ...