Red Rock Canyon draws climbers from around the world, offering towering sandstone walls just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip ...

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. Courtesy of Flickr user Dimitry.S. Some of the most stunning structural feats aren’t built by architects or sculpted by artists. From Bryce ...

Igneous rocks are rebels. Sedimentary rocks follow straight-forward rules—they are deposited in horizontal layers, with the oldest sediments on the bottom. Igneous rocks can do what they want. Molten ...

Virginia Tech geological-sciences Ph.D. candidate Jason Reed is trying to determine what controls sandstone formation and how its resulting reservoir quality can aid oil and gas companies search for ...

Gravity, not glue, allows towering sandstone pillars and arches to withstand howling wind and pouring rain, researchers propose July 20 in Nature Geoscience. Sandstone forms when tiny sand grains bind ...

Brightstar has delivered a string of significant gold hits at its Sandstone project in WA, including a 4.2m intercept at ...