The badlands also contain hoodoos and a petrified forest. Frank Krahmer/Masterfile/Corbis The formations are comprised of sedimentary rocks like sandstone, shale and mudstone. Frank Krahmer ...

Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries. These rocks form when molten plastic cools within a ...

ATLANTA – Striking new pictures of the surface of Mars show evidence that the planet was once a lot more like Earth, with layers of sedimentary rock that scientists say were likely to have been ...

The process of recording time in rock isn’t like a tape recorder alternating between ‘play’ and ‘pause’. What is recorded is the time it takes for the deposition of sediment to occur (or ...

A comparison of chemical and climate weathering of sedimentary rock in Mars' Gale ... the researchers had to look for similar rocks and ... (2021, January 21). Rocks show Mars once felt like ...

Mars rover Perseverance helped scientists study layered rocks like these in Jezero Crater on the Martian surface. Scientists initially thought they were sedimentary rocks, but further examination ...

The latest analyses look like settling matters. ... Since 1996, attention has focused on a small outcrop of supposedly sedimentary rocks, claimed to be more than 3.85 billion years old, ...