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 ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A high spatial and depth resolution deep-ultraviolet (UV) 266 nm wavelength ...

With the rapid development of deep mining and geothermal exploitation, the influence of high-temperature environment on the mechanical properties of rocks has become a core challenge for engineering ...

For bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts, changing body composition often reflects hard work and discipline—but knowing body composition is useful for anyone, and for more than just bragging rights.

Scientists recently unveiled the nation's newest "oldest known" rock — discovered in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — ...

Geologist Michael Ackerson holds a sample from Canada's Acasta Gneiss formation, home to some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Michael Ackerson We know Earth is old. Scientists estimate that our ...

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 title ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought. Turns out, it’s not the ...

Thanks to the ever-improving world of fitness trackers and apps, you've never had more access to personal health data. But which of the dizzying number of markers and metrics should you really be ...

ABSTRACT: The mafic enclaves from Paleoproterozoic domain are considered to be the results of large-scale crust-mantle interaction and magma mixing. In this paper, petrography, mineralogy and ...