With complete melting you "reset" the clock and the newly formed igneous rock is a brand new mixture of elements and minerals. To help explain better the rock cycle video below by MIT students ...

"It will take global cooperation." Researchers sound alarm as concerning phenomenon threatens water supply for more than 90 ...

A groundbreaking studypublished in Nature reveals compelling evidence of a vast ocean trapped deep within the Earth’s mantle, ...

Long before we use rocks for these purposes, they undergo a process known plainly as the “rock cycle”, which is a series of processes ... and each undergo physical transformations via melting, cooling ...

A vast hidden ocean may lie 400 miles beneath Earth’s surface—trapped inside the mineral ringwoodite. This discovery could ...

The findings describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon cycle in ... exhumed mantle rocks and CO2-rich alkaline basalt formed through limited extents of melting characteristic ...

‘As water is released it lowers the melting point of the surrounding rocks and generates magma ... the water-in and water-out parts of the cycle and its expressions in terms of magmatic ...