If you take a walk in the Wissahickon Valley section of Fairmount Park, you will see beds of Wissahickon schist where the bedding planes look like somebody bunched the rock up. The beds form a wavy… ...

4 Kitchen-Countertop Stones That Go Beyond Granite From limestone to schist to labradorite, more homeowners are installing unusual varieties of stone countertops in new homes and renovations.

This city was built on and around what is now referred to as Manhattan Schist, a tough old rock that has essentially become the backbone of the island. There are plenty of places to spot the stuff ...

Much of Manhattan's natural landscape is flattened but there are still places to take in the Manhattan schist, natural bedrock formations above and below ground ...

SPARKS, Nev. — Firefighters from the Sparks Fire Department and Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District are actively working to extinguish a structure fire in the 7000 block of Schist Drive.

“Donald Sheckler always told me, ‘If you find schist, there’s gold somewhere nearby.’” Jim looks at the piece of schist rock he’s just kicked out of the dirt here, halfway up Mine ...

A gray schist figure from the ancient region of Gandhara, known as the “Emaciated Buddha,” represents one of just a few known, fully intact examples of this small, starved group.

Colorful walls of metamorphic schist and intrusions of granite and quartz make this an interesting canyon hike.