In a geologic nutshell: Two ancient types of rock - 1.4-billion-year-old Oracle granite and 50-million-year-old wilderness granite combined to form a type of rock called gneiss. A display in the ...

Rock outcrop of biotite gneiss at Watersmeet Dome in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Recent findings published in GSA Today suggest this formation, known as the Watersmeet Gneiss, may be the oldest intact ...

Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the title for oldest rock in the U.S. Scientists recently unveiled the nation's newest "oldest ...

The initial step of preparing the Thin Section involves cutting the rock sample to a standard size, fitting to a 48 x 26 glass slide, commonly known as the Giessner format. This precise cutting is ...

Researchers developed the SACA-StyleGAN method to generate and semi-automatically annotate cast thin section images of tight oil reservoirs. This approach significantly improves data diversity, image ...

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For now, the Gneiss tap room is open Saturdays from 12-6 p.m. Copy the Story Link. Comments are no longer available on this story. Send questions/comments to the editors. filed under: ...

No, it's right here at Yellow Aster Butte. Beautiful metamorphic gneiss, 400 million years old, and it came from Northern Europe. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Full day of hiking today ...

Energy storage firm Gravitricity has appointed Edinburgh and London-based corporate finance specialists Gneiss Energy to spearhead a £40 million funding drive – with the goal of building three ...