The oldest rock in the United States has been discovered in Michigan, with zircons dating back 3.82 billion years.

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...

Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — metamorphic rocks banded with various minerals — but an analysis determined that the gneiss in northern Michigan ...