Quartzsite’s claim to fame is reflected in its name. The small town near the California state line could be considered the territorial capital for rock hounds, especially during gem- and mineral-show ...

A team of geologists at the University of Texas suggests that a collection of smooth, red quartzite cobbles, found in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming, was deposited there by dinosaurs coming from ...

Geologists have been baffled by perforations in an Australian quartzite (rock), identical in shape to burrows made in sands by crustaceans; the original sandy sediment is a billion years older than ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

The scared red boulder, pictured Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, is a red quartzite rock that sits in Robinson Park in downtown Lawrence across from City Hall. In 1929, a group of Lawrence officials arranged ...

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...