10 Places That Look Like Other Planets

Earth is generally referred to as the Blue Planet, but within its familiar landscapes there are places so alien that they can easily be...

10 Places Where Fossils Tell Ancient Stories

Fossils are more than ancient remains—they are windows into vanished worlds. Each fossil preserves a moment in time, capturing organisms that lived millions of...

10 Rock Landscapes That Look Like Art

Nature has been shaping the Earth's surface for billions of years. However, this shaping is not random, chaotic or unplanned. On the contrary; factors...

GEOLOGICAL WONDERS

Eye Of The Sahara or Richat Structure

A Mysterious Circle in the SandsIn the endless beige expanse of the Sahara Desert, a perfect circle breaks the monotony — a series of...

The Lake Hillier, Australia

Lake Hillier is a stunning natural wonder located on Middle Island, off the coast of Western Australia. It is renowned for its unique and...

Basaltic Prisms of Santa Maria Regla, Mexico

The Basaltic Prisms of Santa Maria Regla are a natural geological formation located in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. These prisms are columnar basalt...

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ROCKS

Minerals

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10 Places That Look Like Other Planets

Earth is generally referred to as the Blue Planet, but within its familiar landscapes there are places so alien that they can easily be...

10 Places Where Fossils Tell Ancient Stories

Fossils are more than ancient remains—they are windows into vanished worlds. Each fossil preserves a moment in time, capturing organisms that lived millions of...

10 Rock Landscapes That Look Like Art

Nature has been shaping the Earth's surface for billions of years. However, this shaping is not random, chaotic or unplanned. On the contrary; factors...

ORE MINERALS

Braches of Geology

Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA

Kilauea Volcano is one of the most active and well-known volcanoes in the world, located on the southeastern side of the Big Island of...

Evaporation and Transpiration

The process through which water is transferred from the surface of the Earth (land surface, free water surfaces, soil water, etc.) to the atmosphere is called evaporation.During evaporation process the latent heat of evaporation is taken from the surface of evaporation.Therefore evaporation is considered as a cooling process. Evaporation from land surface, free water surfaces, soil water, etc. are of great importance in hydrological and meterological studies,

Fluorescent Minerals: Why Do Some Minerals Glow Under UV Light?

You pick up a stone. You look at it in daylight.It looks ordinary. Gray, white, maybe slightly colored.For most people, the story ends here.Then...

Geysers

GENERAL GEOLOGY CONTENTS

Unconformities

An unconformity is contact between two rock units.Unconformities are typically buried erosional surfaces that can represent a break in the geologic record of hundreds of millions of years or more. It it called an unconformity because the ages of the layers of rock that are abutting each other are discontinuous at the unconformity. An expected age of layer or layers of rock is/are missing due to the erosion; and, some period in geologic time is not represented.