A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voilà. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming ...

On board the Beagle, Darwin used a complete library for mineral identification, including A selection of the Geological Memoirs (1824), featuring a mineral identification chart compiled by famous ...

These rocks are dark grey in color, one of which has some round dark greenish lumps running through it. Your show piqued my interest in rock and mineral identification and so I thought I'd try my ...

This class for the serious geology buff includes lab experiments, rock and mineral identification, hydrology and fossil identification. Cost: $55.

She said what was once basic mapping of minerals and rocks has evolved with the use of satellite data, drone technology and sonar mapping of sea beds.