The bedrock beneath Pine Island Glacier on the peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica held pink granite boulders ...

GRANITE QUARRY — The chairman of Granite Quarry’s Downtown Revitalization Committee says a “Granite Rocks” promotional theme for the town might be taken literally. Doug Shelton told the Granite Quarry ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Your home is your sanctuary -- the place you live life, raise children and make memories. It's where you should feel happy and healthy. So, of course, you want the materials inside ...

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Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have ...

Zircon population in granite rocks are most often heterogeneous with respect to uranium concentrations (which can vary from a few hundred ppm to > 1 %) and the typology of the grains (for example, in ...

GRANITE FALLS, Wash. - Drivers near Granite Falls are complaining of rocks falling off trucks and putting divots in or busting their windshields. For decades, trucks have been carrying loads of rocks ...

Using microwave instruments to peer deep beneath the surface of the far side of the Moon, researchers have detected a ‘hotspot’ they say is a large subsurface granite mass, suggesting the Moon is more ...

Researchers have discovered that the minerals comprising granite crystallize from a molten state at a temperature far lower than previously thought. The new finding challenges geologists' long-held ...

Index granite is famous for its texture, but Mount Index contains more mysterious rock. Index granite was used to build the iconic Smith Tower in Seattle, and it is known by climbers all over the ...

The Journal of Geology, Vol. 49, No. 6 (Aug. - Sep., 1941), pp. 641-656 (16 pages) Granites intrusive into basic volcanic rocks in the Red Lake area are commonly surrounded by a zone of rocks ...