Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

What we know today as Sabino Canyon was the site of a whole lot of scrunching 25 million years ago. In a geologic nutshell: Two ancient types of rock - 1.4-billion-year-old Oracle granite and 50 ...

The rock known as Morton gneiss started out as a gray granite, formed about 3.5 billion years ago deep beneath the surface of the Earth. Molten rock cooled slowly, forming grains (granite comes ...

And finally David, after researching all this, do you feel like Granite State is a misnomer? We should absolutely be the Schist State or maybe the Gneiss State, which is another type of rock.

India is a beautiful peninsula that is filled with natural wonders. One such destination is Tamil Nadu. The coastal state ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process ... Another way to form gneiss from granite is to have high stress or pressure from regional plate tectonics. For example the India plate ...

With house-size boulders tumbled across its scarred surface and slanted, twisted peaks looming over its iconic namesake trees, Joshua Tree National Park’s preternatural terrain evokes ...

For years, Minnesota’s Morton Gneiss was celebrated as the world’s oldest rock, with claims dating back to 3.8 billion years. A sign near its outcrop in Granite Falls, Minnesota, proudly ...

WHEN: After a 5-day climb battling icy weather conditions, Honnold and Findlay successfully summited the granite-gneiss rock face on Tuesday, Aug. 16. WHERE: Sitting at ground zero of the climate ...