One of the best parts about living in the San Francisco Bay Area is that there is great geology very close by. I snapped this photo just a couple weeks ago when we showing some out-of-town visitors ...

Deep in the ocean, a mission is underway to explore the "unknown and poorly known areas" around the Mariana Trench. "Despite decades of previous work in the region," the National Oceanic and ...

A first attempt to measure directly the magnetic polarity of submarine basalts dredged from the Reykjanes Ridge indicates that the first two magnetic anomalies over the ridge resulted from a reversal ...

A grey pillow basalt with a brown alteration rim recovered by dredging during the KNOX-06-RR research cruise in 2007. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

It is a hulking chunk of basalt with an ironic name. But in the North Woods town of Ely, Minn., the sedan-sized specimen of billowed lava known as "Pillow Rock" has managed to wedge city leaders ...

Natland, James H., Tarney, John, Marsh, N. G., Melson, William G., and O'Hearn, T. 1984. "Compositions, Stratigraphy, and Alteration of Pillow Basalts, Deep Sea ...