New research into fossilized rock formations in Zimbabwe is shedding light on Earth's nitrogen cycle before the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Scientists analyzing ancient stromatolites—layered rock ...

Schwintek and colleagues sought a cycle that didn’t require large ... The team made a model of a volcanic rock pore partially ...

This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how volcanic activity billions of years ago could have influenced ...

which are heated and compressed underground.Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock from volcanic activity cools down either underground or on the surface.This slow but continuous cycle of rock ...