A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Come again? Earth has a rock cycle—igneous rocks transform to sedimentary rocks, then to metamorphic, then back again. Some scientists and experts think of this or refer to it as "recycled ...

An aluminum tab from a drinks can found encased in a new form of rock on the Cumbrian coastline has helped provide scientists ...

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.

Crushed rock additives may also help decrease soil emissions of other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane.

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form ...

From Italy to Argentina It is precisely in the small town of Cogorno that a plaque of slate—a fine-grained grey, green or bluish metamorphic rock—commemorates Bergoglio’s great grandfather ...

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The plaque of slate, described as a “fine-grained gray, green or bluish metamorphic rock,” commemorates Francis’ great-grandfather, Vincenzo Sivori, on his mother’s side, the news website ...

Rosario Pete Vasquez, Blaine’s chief patrol agent, said they have installed concrete blocks and rock barriers in several high-traffic areas near the crossing. Boulders have been present along ...