A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...

The scientists dated the rocks using zircon, a mineral in gneiss, the GSA said. "Dating zircon grains using ... techniques is now celebrated as the optimal method for determining when igneous ...

The induction ceremony will take place Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. Cyndi Lauper says she is "humbled" to be a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. The "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" singer took to ...

"Alternatively, ‘Skull Hill’ could be an igneous rock eroded from a nearby outcrop or ejected from an impact crater," Deahn continues. "On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the ...

"The pits on Skull Hill may have formed via the erosion of clasts from the rock or scouring by wind," NASA said. "Alternatively, 'Skull Hill' could be an igneous rock eroded from a nearby outcrop ...

Diorite intrusions are places where magma partially melted parts of the boulder and then cooled to form the igneous rock diorite. Diorite has coarse-grained black, gray and white minerals.

It features scenes of farmers tilling soil, majestic mountain roads, sedimentary rock formations, and granite and marble quarries. The film also highlights natural phenomena such as volcanic ...

is supplied from igneous rock from Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland. These igneous phosphate deposits are mostly from the Khibiny Alkalic Igneous Complex (Notholt, 1979) and the Kovdor ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...