Though Morton gneiss is as tough and durable as granite, it has rarely been used as a building stone. Architects have used it mainly in the lower floors of large buildings for its visual appeal.

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 50 ...

Connecticut was once dotted with quarries that produced building stone, though only a few quarries remain. Portland sandstone and Stony Creek granite (from Branford) are among the best known ...

Some of the park’s rocks — ranging from marble to quartzite to gneiss — sprang from a long-eroded mountain range that spanned from northern ... leaving only these hardy, heavy, granite ...

GRANITE FALLS -- For 14 years, ... The Gneiss Outcrop Scientific and Natural Area south of Granite Falls. ADVERTISEMENT. His trip started like a hunt for a pirate's treasure.

Historically, the availability of granite gneiss attracted sculptors to Mailadi even though there is a ban on quarrying now. According to Robert Bruce Foote, ...