The stunning history of the Fukang Pallasite meteorite
In the year 2,000, a Chinese dealer purchased an unusual-looking rock weighing around a ton. He cleaned it off, removing ...
Tag: olivine
Making cement and bricks out of the gemstone olivine could cut CO2 emissions by 11 percent
Cement and clay bricks could be replaced with olivine-based alternatives.
Earth’s mantle is much hotter than we thought, scientists learn
For once, it's not something to do with global warming, phew!
Earth may have generated its own water – geologically
A new study may have finally found where Earth's water came from. There are currently two competing theories, with one ...
Rock with 30,000 diamonds found Russian diamond mine
Do you fancy diamonds? If the answer is 'yes', then you'll absolutely love this rock extracted from a Russian mine. ...
First ringwoodite sample confirms huge quantities of water in the Earth’s mantle
The first ever terrestrial discovery of ringwoodite seems to confirm the existence of massive amounts of water hundreds of kilometers ...
Largest deep earthquake ever recorded still baffles seismologists
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck deep beneath the Sea of Okhotsk on May 24, 2013 still poses a lot ...
Asteroid Vesta is a lot like Earth, study shows
The cold, lifeless Vesta asteroid might be a lot more like our planet than astronomers believed - having a very ...
