Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here's what to know.

Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — metamorphic rocks banded with various minerals — but an analysis determined that the gneiss in northern Michigan ...

Point 5 • Where: Starting from Tram Stop 8, walk a short distance up Sabino Creek and watch for depressions in the beautifully banded gneiss along the watercourse.

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 ...

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.

Three generations of pegmatite are distinguished, the earliest of which is subsequent to the consolidation of the banded gneiss.

This figure is arrived at by multiplying 630 mm rainfall with the total area of GHMC (650 sq km). “If I pour 100 litres of water, only one litre is absorbed through a banded gneiss rock formation.

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 ...

This new street-facing elevation was designed to complement Fordham’s collegiate gothic architecture and is clad in Fordham Gneiss, a banded metamorphic rock that was used to construct many of ...

Ms Sinclair said one of the “absolute treasures” amongst the haul was a banded axe made from gneiss, the hard rock that is often formed out of granite.