Called Lewisian gneiss, it’s the oldest rock in the UK. It’s found in the northwest extremity of the Scottish mainland and the Western Isles. The gneiss’s new home is in our gardens, where it forms ...

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The Gneiss stone had been chosen so that the natural coloured banding was reflected in the shape of the item and then expertly worked and polished to create an object of beauty, said UHI.

Gneiss, a robust metamorphic stone composed of alternating ... hearths and kitchen worktops. Natalie Weinmann sanded and polished the stone to create a blocky furniture collection. One of the most ...

And there’s a lot to learn, starting with gneiss (pronounced “nice”). That material composes the ancient rock formation where snow falls upward—totally true and showcased at North Carolina’s oldest ...

One of the specimens in his collection is an extraordinary garnet gneiss rock that weighs close to 14 tonnes. “I first saw it in a gravel pit and followed it for at least 10 years,” said Braun.

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