Geologists have discovered a new type of rock. While drilling deep into the seafloor, a team of scientists found a new form of basalt vastly different from any other on Earth, and the planet hasn’t ...

A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean. An international team of researchers including the University of Leeds ...

Products made with basalt fiber include fabric and rebar. Some products, such as basalt rebar that Yoakum said is stronger and more corrosion-resistant than steel rebar, could be used locally and take ...

Lava emerging from a volcano can take on a variety of shapes depending on its consistency and what it comes into contact with. At Syracuse University in New York, researchers have been melting large ...

Mumbai's Gilbert Hill, a 200-foot basalt column formed 66 million years ago from volcanic eruptions, stands as a rare geological monument. Compared to Devil's Tower and Devil's Postpile in the USA, it ...

Yes on 3A was formed two weeks ago to try to supplement the town’s efforts to explain the mill levy ballot question, according to Yes on 3A member Bill Kane, who served as town manager for Basalt from ...

An international team of researchers unearthed the previously unknown form of basalt after drilling through the Pacific ocean floor. Peridotite is composed mostly of greenish magnesium-iron-silicate ...