T o the untrained eye, the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), in northeastern South Africa, is kind of unassuming. It’s roughly the same size as West Virginia – or, for metric users, the Republic of ...

Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous ...

The Wyoming State Geological Survey has digitized old maps of the Granite Mountains, shedding light on hidden geological ...

Every stone thrown at the Olympic curling tournaments comes from the same place — the remote island of Ailsa Craig, off the Scottish coast.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are well under way, and this year everyone’s talking about one thing: Curling. That’s right. This sport, which involves sweeping a stone onto a target, is taking the internet ...

December 22, 2025 – Yosemite National Park officials ask if you can name all five of these legendary rock formations in Yosemite? Over millennia, glaciers, rivers, earthquakes, and even temperature ...

We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

Very large minerals – in igneous rocks, the term "coarse-grained" means the minerals are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. In a pegmatite like this, the minerals are much larger than that, ...

Geoscience professor Matthew Kohn and colleagues published an article titled “Himalayan ‘S-type’ granite generated from I-type sources” on May 30, 2025 in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH – A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz advances the ...