Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name ...

See the difference? The title for the actual paper directly fits the results of their study — what they found with the data they collected and analyzed. The press release title jumps immediately to an ...

They may not be the steps to paradise, but several outcrops of Martian rocks do resemble stairs, showing a regular pattern that suggests the ancient climate on the Red Planet wasn’t always a hellish ...

These are sedimentary rock layers chronicling Earth's geological history. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their ...

The Mars rover Opportunity has taken the first close-up pictures ever of Martian bedrock, and these reveal important new details of the intriguing strata. The rover’s earlier observations revealed ...

Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known as ...

I first saw this press release on the Arizona Geology blog a couple weeks ago and it caught my eye. Cycles in sediments -- I love that topic. Who doesn't?! A study led by researchers from Caltech used ...