Perched on the wall next to McGlothlin-Street room 228, at the crossroads of the Geology Department’s two main corridors, resides a curious rock plaque depicting Snoopy, the famed Peanuts cartoon ...

UPPER MAKEFIELD >> The sprawling Diabase farm on Street Road, known for its stunning vistas and sweeping landscape, will now be preserved in its entirety through two conservation easements being ...

Longmont-based Diabase Engineering is focused on making consumer 3D printing more functional. Not content with printing flimsy plastic blocks and knickknacks, the company has developed and brought to ...

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ringing Rocks Park features unique diabase boulders that produce bell-like tones when struck. Formed 200 million years ago and fractured by Ice Age freeze-thaw cycles, ...

Laurel Hill, an almost completely exposed early Jurassic volcanic neck, consisting of three concentric zones whose diverse chemical composition overlaps each of the major eastern North American (ENA) ...

Confederate troops could not cross the geographic barrier of the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg or Columbia and so headed west to confront the Union army. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces ...

In my last column, I wrote about the locations where you can find igneous rocks that were formed from lava. The metarhyolite and metabasalt described in the column are known as extrusive rocks, those ...