Colorful walls of metamorphic schist and intrusions of granite and quartz make this an interesting canyon hike. Anchor ads are not supported on this page. Close ...

What guests won’t find in Dan Sternberg’s newly built 4,400-square-foot home in North East, N.Y., is granite. For the retired lawyer, schist is the stone of choice. Charcoal-colored slabs ...

While the schist of Umpire Rock was being formed, it was twisted and folded by upheavals in the earth’s depths. Minerals scattered in the former shale were fused into crystals of quartz, ...