I’ve been thinking about granite a lot recently; primarily because we have been covering plate tectonics in my AP Environmental Science class. Granite figures prominently in this discussion because ...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, including a form of igneous rock called granite, a mass composed mostly of silica and aluminum that makes up a large part of the continental ...

We say we're in the Granite State, but actually New Hampshire's rocky foundation is less than half granite. What are those other rocks? And how did they get there? For answers we turn to Granite Geek ...

Researchers from the US space agency NASA have said that granite – an igneous rock common on Earth— could be found in abundance on Mars. Researchers from the US space agency NASA have said that ...

Rock is a solid mass of minerals that have joined together over time. Geology is the study of how the Earth is formed and the things that happen to the Earth. As part of this, geologists study rocks ...

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 ...

I’ve been thinking about granite a lot recently; primarily because we have been covering plate tectonics in my AP Environmental Science class. Granite figures prominently in this discussion because ...