Scientists recently unveiled the nation's newest "oldest known" rock — discovered in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — ...
Scientists recently unveiled the nation's newest "oldest known" rock — discovered in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — ...
The Teton Fault System Creates the Foundation The Teton Fault began moving approximately 10 million years ago, triggering a ...
The Wisconsin Science Festival hosted a Crossroads of Ideas event at UW on Oct. 22. to showcase a combination of geological ...
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What we know today as Sabino Canyon was the site of a whole lot of scrunching 25 million years ago. In a geologic nutshell: Two ancient types of rock - 1.4-billion-year-old Oracle granite and ...
Oldest North Cascades bedrock, a 400-million-year-old tale from European origins. The oldest bedrock in all of the North Cascades sits high in the mountains near the Canadian border. Its origin story ...