What is the difference between granites and garnets? Minerals are the building blocks of rocks. They are inorganic, crystalline solids with a known chemistry. Examples of minerals include diamonds, ...

Almost everything we use comes from our natural resources, and many of those natural resources come from under the surface of the earth. Rocks, minerals, water, oil and gas are all geological ...

Some minerals in rocks and organic matter (e.g., wood, bones, and shells) can contain radioactive isotopes. The abundances of parent and daughter isotopes in a sample can be measured and used to ...

The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...

Together, retired earth science teachers Eugene Genova and Ron Russ travel far and wide searching for fossils.