SAPPHIRINE is a principal constituent of certain high grade silica-deficient metamorphic rocks at Fiskenaesset, West Greenland, where it occurs with cordierite, corundum, anorthite and biotite. A ...

Weak rock structure was the primary cause of the landslide that occurred on Monday in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, resulting in at least 34 deaths, a preliminary investigation revealed on ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Metamorphic rocks close metamorphic rock Metamorphic rocks are those rocks which have been changed from an earlier state through the addition of pressure or heat.s. have been subjected to ...

No reports of injuries have been reported after the Little Rock Fire Department responded to a commercial structure fire on the 7600 block of Colonel Glenn Road. According to LRFD responder Jacob ...

Taken in 1952, this image is the first X-ray picture of DNA, which led to the discovery of its molecular structure by Watson and Crick.Created by Rosalind Franklin using a technique called X-ray ...

Currently, fewer than 100 metamorphic proteins are known, compared to approximately 200,000 monomorphic proteins—those with a ...

A new rock structure comprising stone slabs, believed to be belonging to the 11 th century, surfaced very close to the Chandragiri Fort, one of the three capitals of the erstwhile Vijayanagara ...

A person died in a house fire in Eagle Rock late Sunday morning. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, crews were first dispatched to 5282 North Townsend Avenue around 11 a.m. Upon ...

What they were after was a type of metamorphic rock called gneiss (pronounced “nice”). It forms when igneous rocks like granite undergo intense heat and pressure, changing their structure and ...