The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will expand Enchanted Rock State Natural Area with the $43 million purchase of a ...
It’s a stunning find because until now granite on the moon was found only in traces within lunar rock brought back to the Earth on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. It was thought to ...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announces the popular Enchanted Rock State Natural Area will double in size.
The amount of pore space in most unweathered granite is too small to support a plant-based ecosystem. But porosity grows as intact rock interacts with surface waters beneath the soil. You have ...
For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the continental base, in combination with metamorphic rocks ...