Researchers studied a Jamestown tombstone that had long been believed to belong to an English knight, and instead found that ...

Fossils weaken the strength of […] In July 2002, an Italian man named Mr Francioni found something strange. Francioni owns a marble-cutting company in the Tuscan town of Pietrasanta, ...

Hagen has layered oil paint, sand, varnish, marble dust and dry pigments—including iron oxides, ... "Fossils of the Anthropocene" is on display at the AAAS Art Gallery through November 19, 2014.

While the stone marker is described as "marble" in historical documents, at the time this term was often applied to any kind of rock that could be polished. Dating from 1627, the slab of mineral ...

Oyster shell fragments, solenopora algae, and trace fossils in the Portland stone. 52-53, Cornhill A close-up of 52-53 Cornhill’s beautiful Swedish green marble.

Cliffs in Marble Canyon, where a treasure trove of Cambrian fossils was discovered in 2012. The fossils are in the Burgess Shale, and rival the famed original Burgess Shale fossil site in ...