Researchers have discovered that the minerals comprising granite crystallize from a molten state at a temperature far lower than previously thought. The new finding challenges geologists' long-held ...

Researchers now have stronger evidence of granite on Mars and a new theory for how the granite – an igneous rock common on Earth -- could have formed there, according to a new study. The findings ...

I’ve been thinking about granite a lot recently; primarily because we have been covering plate tectonics in my AP Environmental Science class. Granite figures prominently in this discussion because ...

Thank goodness for granite. If not for the formation and subsequent erosion of large quantities of metal-rich granite on a supercontinent that formed billions of years ago, the evolution of ...

Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...