Geology often gets a bad rap as the boring study of rocks and minerals. I’m hear to show you otherwise. Geology is a high-octane window into Earth’s vibrant, often violent history. Every rock tells a ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, an area known for its rich ...

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Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are remarkable expressions of mantle-derived magmatism, characterised by the rapid emplacement of vast volumes of basaltic to picritic magma through continental or ...

Water, wind, earthquakes, cold, and heat scour, fracture, move, or melt rock. Rock is continuously being changed, rebuilt, or ...

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) represent some of the most prodigious volcanic events in Earth history, characterised by the rapid emplacement of vast volumes of predominantly basaltic magma onto the ...