The Marble Caves sit on the shores of a turquoise glacial lake in southern Chile. Light bounces off the water onto the walls, ...

In the arid deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers have uncovered an astonishing discovery: thin, orderly ...

Marble is best known for what it can be made into — incredible artworks or tacky ashtrays. But before it was that prized white-grey rock, marble was something a lot more pedestrian — limestone ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

Quartzite would be highly resistant to chemical weathering because it's quartz. And because it lacks a lot of space for water to sneak in, very resistant to physical weathering as well.

The deflation of the upland limestone landscape by slow solution weathering is demonstrated at Norber in the Yorkshire Dales. Limestone is dissolved very slowly over a period of time.

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

Gravestones can be made from plutonic rocks, like gabbro and granite, metamorphic rocks, like slate and marble and more rarely of sedimentary rocks, likes sandstone and limestone.

Unknown microorganisms used marble and limestone as a habitat Unusual structures of unknown origin found in rocks of desert areas Date: March 19, 2025 Source: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz ...

Learn about the processes of weathering and erosion and how it influences our planet.