Yes. We know the stone isn’t very pretty. But we want to find where it came from so we can buy a bunch more. Why? History.

Brownstone is a soft sedimentary stone that is found in horizontal beds close to the earth’s surface in Connecticut’s Central Valley. It was deposited about 200 million years ago, when Africa ...

Why Are Fossils Only Found in Sedimentary Rocks? Dig into the three different types of rock, and discover why only one of these types features fossils.

Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries. These rocks form when molten plastic cools within a ...

CT scans showed the preserved skin was deflated, rather than compressed by sedimentary stone pressed down on it.

Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades creating metal-like clay sculptures. Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades balancing a teaching career while creating a dizzying number of sculptures in ...

The yoke, made from sedimentary stone, is believed to have been made on the Gulf Coast during the Mesoamerican Classic period (400 CE-900 CE) in the Veracruz Central Classic style.

Built on the same colorful sedimentary stone as nearby Zion National Park, Sand Hollow is as close as you’ll get to playing golf on Mars. The more traditional desert front nine winds through red ...

The Morrison Formation is a fossil wonderland. Inside these layers of multi-colored sedimentary stone, the remains of Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus and more have been found through more ...

Instead, they consider an assortment of areas — comparing the age and the accessibility of the rock — prior to picking up their trowels. Most important in their considerations is the type of stone at ...