Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Outdoor kitchen countertop ideas can transform your space. Let’s narrow down the options and determine which type is best for ...

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever ...

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

Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich, silica-poor magmas. That’s how it got its name—soda + lithos, or “sodium stone," according to Rock Your World gem & art ...

Igneous Rock Phosphate: ore grades, concentrates and mining operations around the world. Drs. Sandeep Banerjee, Peir K. Pufahl, Sarah Dare Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Queen ...

In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the ...

Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich, silica-poor magmas. That’s how it got its name—soda + lithos, or “sodium stone," according to Rock Your World gem & art ...