For over a century, the concept of a shallow magma chamber—a large magma-filled cavity just ~5 km under the base of a ...

Let the foliage-peeping masses head to the better-known mountains and seaside destinations. Instead, set your nav points to ...

Visitors to one of Texas’s most popular parks will soon be able to stroll in the shade of colossal live oaks and alongside ...

New research by Winnie Kortemeier, professor of geosciences at Western Nevada College, places Tahoe in the pantheon of ...

Miles of hiking trails loop through the dramatic boulders of Texas Canyon Nature Preserve at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, ...

Lepidolite is a calming crystal known for stress relief and emotional healing. Discover its soothing energy, lithium content, ...

As the magma slowly cooled, it crystallized into rocks known as quartz monzonite, similar in coloring and structure to granite. Quartz monzonite actually contains a smaller percentage of quartz ...

A land purchase by the state would significantly increase the size of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area near Fredericksburg.

Located about 18 miles north of downtown Fredericksburg, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area is mostly known for the 425-foot pink granite dome ... by a massive pool of magma pushing up from ...

Within the deeper, slowly cooling magma chamber, crystalline minerals formed, creating rocks with a texture similar to granite. – Over millions of years, this new crust moved away from the ...