Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the compound copper carbonate which has the formula CuCO₃.

It’s not just litter. It’s entombed in a new kind of rock.

7. Describe that the same behavior happens for many types of rocks. Tell the students that temperature and pressure increase as one goes deeper in the Earth, so that the deeper Earth material ...

"This gives us a maximum timeframe of 35 years for this rock formation, well within the course of a single human lifetime.

Researchers warn that current land management models don't account for accelerated, human-driven rock formation processes.

Gneiss is a type of metamorphic rock that has been subjected to high temperatures and pressures deep in Earth's crust ...

The rocks on Earth are constantly changing due to many different processes. There are three main types of rock, with rocks changing between each type over millions of years. This rock recycling is ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

It creates the Earth's magnetic field and is about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) thick. The next layer is the mantle. Many people think of this as lava, but it's actually rock. The rock is so hot ...