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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Your home is your sanctuary -- the place you live life, raise children and make memories. It's where you should feel happy and healthy. So, of course, you want the materials inside ...

Maine is well-known for its hard rock. Not the Metallica kind. The kind used to build post offices, customs houses and monuments. Prisons, office buildings, churches and more recently, kitchen ...

From its fiery birth deep beneath Earth's crust to its role in shaping continents and adorning our kitchens, granite’s journey is as fascinating as it is enduring. Formed through slow crystallization ...

Lee Wilder, public outreach coordinator for the New Hampshire Geological Survey, explains the different types of bedrock in New Hampshire. Credit: David Brooks / Monitor staff Like most New ...

In 1820 the Italian engineer Count Giuseppe Marzari-Pencati (1779-1836) published a short article about the stratigraphic succession found near the small village of Predazzo. In the 18th and 19th ...

Michael Cheadle, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, teaches Indian graduate students about geology and granites during a field trip to the Lesser Himalayas in September. Cheadle ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in China’s ...