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 ...

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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 ...

Marcia Bjornerud sits in the basement of a soon-to-be-demolished building at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. The sole faculty member remaining in a depleted geology department, she sorts through ...

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 ...