As a result, the fossils found in shale are typically small, aquatic animals and plants, such as bryozoans, brachiopods and arthropods. Similarly, sandstone is fashioned when the semi-fine fragments ...

Several Fontainebleau sandstone concretions—smooth, swirling formations found in France—reveal what a brilliant modernist sculptor Mother Nature was two million years ago. Collecting crystals and ...

“The first carbon crystal was found during an investigation of the dust using an optical microscope, because its facets happened to be in the focal plane,” they added. Researchers also found ...

After analyzing the dust with more powerful electron microscopes, the researchers found many more of these crystals and examined them in much greater detail. However, even then, "finding the ...

Hamed Gamaleldien led a team of researchers that analyzed grains of zircon, a crystal found in Jack Hills, Western Australia. Gamaleldien and his team discovered the earliest record of freshwater ...

Now, University College London researchers have found evidence in an outcrop of ... the research team collected 11 sandstone samples from the Garvellach Islands to analyze zircons in the sandstone.

When construction was underway on the American Museum of Natural History's new (and now open) Gilder Center, a soaring and sculptural wing dedicated to science, learning, exhibitions, and ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A fossilized tusk has been discovered by visitors at Fort Worden State Park. “The tusk was found to be eroding out of the sandstone bluff on the beach there at Fort Worden,” said ...