High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

Our scientists have been looking for a rock that formed so long ago it was on Earth before complex life lived on land. Called Lewisian gneiss, it’s the oldest rock in the UK. It’s found in the ...

More than a century ago, Frank Bennett Fiske had a photography studio at Fort Yates, a US Army post in the middle of a North Dakota Indian reservation. He made his money photographing cavalry ...

His photos appear ... as the rock was thrust deep into the earth again and again, wrapping over itself in pleats of antiquity. The stone is called Lewesian gneiss and it is pretty much the oldest ...

This granite-gneiss boulder weighing 32 tons is a glacial deposit ... Waldo, as a boy lived near Plainwell and always admired the rock. He often expressed a desire that it be brought to the campus.

They make up the different landmasses? CONNOR: Yes. There is a rock called Lewisian Gneiss in this area, the oldest rock in Western Europe. The same rock type is found in Canada and Greenland ...

Getty Images Scotland's oldest rocks are found in parts of the Western ... into a career Scotland's rich geology includes Lewisian Gneiss. At about three billion years old they are Scotland's ...

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And there’s a lot to learn, starting with gneiss (pronounced “nice ... “I live in a spot where people actually come to take pictures,” marvels the woman familiar with each bloom of Blowing Rock’s ...