Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

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

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 ...

The sixth might be the best of them all: a rare uphill par-3. But, boy, is it intimidating, hitting over a rock outcropping with a green sitting on a plateau surrounded by more rock. I'm surely ...

Public lands are one of our country’s great equalizers. It doesn’t matter how much money you have — a billionaire and a bus driver both get the same access to our parks, deserts, rivers and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Public lands are one of our country’s great equalizers. It doesn’t matter how much ...

Many areas of exposed rock outcrop and moraine have also been revealed on land as ice retreats and melts. The accurate locations of these exposed rocks are important for anyone traversing over the ...

It comes from the earliest part of the Carboniferous rock outcropping along the Broken River (Berrepit in the Taungurung language of the local First Nations people). This area has long been known for ...