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 ...

Kays Curling, which has made all the curling stones for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, has a history with the Olympics ...

A large mass of granite, located beneath the Compton and Belkovich craters on the Moon, has been slowly emitting heat for ...

Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, have revealed the presence of a vast buried granite body – almost 100 km across and 7 km ...

Hyderabad: Granite firms in Karimnagar district face recovery proceedings after the mines and geology department reported 129 crore pending dues from unauthorised railway-rake transport of granite ...

Very large minerals – in igneous rocks, the term "coarse-grained" means the minerals are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. In a pegmatite like this, the minerals are much larger than that, ...

Several thousand wells in Kansas have been drilled into the Precambrian basement, which usually signals the depth limit of drilling for oil and gas prospecting. Most of these wells have penetrated ...

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered. When ...

ABSTRACT: Early Palaeozoic Cambrian A-type Kathalguri Granites in the Mikir Hills of northeastern (NE) India were studied to better understand the geodynamic settings in this region. This research ...