While landscaping brings greenery to many people’s minds, rocks are an important part of landscaping, too. Perhaps more accurately a hardscaping element, the various types of landscaping rocks add a ...

Searching for stone for a hardscape project can be confusing. Stone comes in five categories, but these are loose labels and not everyone classifies rock in the same way. The categories describe how ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in China’s ...

We often talk about climate change, melting glaciers, or strange landforms. But we rarely think about something that’s always around us– rocks. They don’t make the news, but they’re everywhere. We ...

"He was searching for rocks an entire life Never to be satisfied. In the end he got a last stone That should satisfy him." Graveyards have a lot to do with geology, from the rocks used for gravestones ...

A rich limestone and dolomite belt crosses York County within the Piedmont Lowlands Section of the Piedmont. The area is better known to farmers as the York Valley where U.S. Route 30 runs from ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

Marble sample from Namibia: Starting from two crevices filled with light-colored crustal limestone, the tubes have grown downwards in a parallel arrangement. Credit: Cees Passchier Professor Cees ...