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 ...

The end result was the striped and banded rock - visible in many parts of the canyon today - called gneiss. 12 to 5 million years ago Rocks in the area, which was still being pulled apart, became ...

An analysis of minerals in the Watersmeet Gneiss (shown) suggest the metamorphic rock dates to about 3.6 billion years ago, potentially making it the oldest known rock in the United States.

The researchers studied the ages of comparative gneiss rocks in Michigan, Minnesota and Wyoming using newer techniques. The scientists dated the rocks using zircon , a mineral in gneiss, the GSA said.

And there is something else: Directly across the road from the Hogpen Gap turnout is a stunning sheer cliff — nearly 60 feet high in some places — of banded gneiss, a metamorphic rock that’s ...

Banded with colorful, unique garnets, the gneiss — a form of metamorphic rock — was pushed as far as rock can go before it melts, to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius ...

The gneiss’s new home is in our gardens, where it forms part of a geological and botanical journey through time. Join our scientist Paul Kenrick on his journey to the Outer Hebrides to find this ...

LONDON. Geological Society, March 28.—Dr. H. H. Thomas, vice-president, in the chair.—E. Greenly: Further researches on the succession and metamorphism in the Mona complex. Fragments from the ...

Fordham University’s latest addition is the McShane Campus Center designed by HLW. the building complements Fordham’s collegiate gothic architecture and is clad in Fordham Gneiss ...