The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Listen to presenter, Bernie Hobbs, explain the forces that transform sedimentary rocks to metamorphic ...

While taking my cardboard recyclables to the Bulldog recycle yard, I thought about how Mother Nature recycles rocks. She ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

The Great Transformation The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and ...