Rocks
We all know that the rock is right. Locals everywhere! They and the mountains and canyons you can not help. We sipped, we sat on them, and we poured them out of our deals. However, to correct a definite definition … this is not something we all will be doing.
Scoria
Scoria is a type of volcanic rock that forms from the solidification of molten lava. It is commonly found around and on the surface...
Pumice
The Story of How Burning Magma Can Be This LightYou pick up a stone. It's porous. Like a sponge. And then you notice: It's...
Lamprophyre
Lamprophyre is ultrapotassic igneous rock that is occurring as dikes, lopoliths, loccoliths, stocks and small intrussion. It is alkaline silica-undersaturated mafic or ultramafic rocks...
Kimberlite
Kimberlite is an igneous rock that major source of diamonds. Kimberlite is a variety of peridotite. It is rich in mica minerals content and...
Pyroxenite
Pyroxenite is an ultramafic igneous rock that contain pyroxene group minerals such as augite, diopside, hypersthene, bronzite or enstatite. This is a coarse-grained rock...
Marl
Marl or the other name Marlstone is a calcium carbonate non-clastic sedimentary rock. It has containt variable of clays and silt. The dominant carbonate...
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, highly porous biochemical sedimentary rock composed almost entirely of calcite (CaCO₃) derived from the remains of coccolithophores, microscopic marine...
Siltstone
Siltstone is a clastic sedimentary rock that formed from grains whose sized between that of sandstone and mudstone. It can found different environmental conditions...
Oil Shale
The Geological Story of Energy Trapped in Sedimentary EnvironmentsOil shale may appear at first glance as an ordinary dark-colored sedimentary rock. It's finely layered,...
Shale
Shale is the quiet giant of the sedimentary world. It doesn’t have the visual drama of sandstone cliffs or the crystalline sparkle of limestone...
Skarn
Skarn is coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that forms by a metasomatism. Also called tactites. Skarn tend to be rich in calcium-magnesium-iron-manganese-aluminium silicate minerals that also...
Sandstone
An Ancient Record Written in StoneSandstone is one of the most widespread sedimentary rocks on Earth, formed through the accumulation and cementation of mineral...
