Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich ... In normal light, a Yooperlite looks like granite. Sodalite replaces quartz, so the larger the mineral size, the brighter ...

Yooperlites can be found as loose pebbles and cobbles along many Lake Superior beaches and even in some inland gravel pits. The stones are derived from igneous rocks near Marathon, Ontario , known as ...

Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building and glaciation events hidden beneath the ice. A new study led b-Oshkosh geolo ...

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Sarytogan Graphite has identified anomalous copper in 140m of trenching averaging 0.09% copper at its Ilkin prospect in the ...

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Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

Classically, granites are separated into two broad categories—“I-type” vs. “S-type”—representing different igneous vs. (meta)sedimentary rock sources for melting. Their geochemistry differs for ...