Montana is full of natural beauty, from the rugged mountains and glacial lakes in the "Crown ... unusual is a unique geological formation where rocks chime like bells. The aptly named Ringing ...

By Becky Nelson I have been a rockhound since I was old enough to pick up a pretty rock. My kitchen sink-shelf has several “beauties” that I have picked up on walks and at work, and I enjoy looking at ...

Together with advancing ice, the rocks carve out a path as the glacier slumps down the mountain. When the glacier begins to melt, it deposits its cargo of soil and rock, transporting the rocky ...

Interestingly, Black Hawk does not mention in his autobiography that he used a boulder as a rostrum in the council area as stated in local lore.

Terminal moraines form when the ice melts and deposits all the moraine it was transporting at the front of the glacier. Glaciers can transport huge amounts of material including rocks, stones and ...

As glacial ice moves very slowly downhill, pieces of rock and gravel get stuck between the ice and the land, forming a coarse surface, similar to the sand on sandpaper. These rocks grind together ...