Morton gneiss
You can start your safari a mere one block east of the Museum! The Ramsey County West Building is covered with Morton gneiss (pronounced "nice"). At 3.6 billion years old, this is some of the oldest rock in the world!
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this is super cool !!!!!!!!! AWESOME
this is a very cool thing to learn about for school and 4 your brain thanx minnesota for giving us the learning experiances we need to make our lives easier.
wow! that was interesting!
this is one the coolest things in the museum...if not THE coolest...
this is so kool.
oh wow this is cool
wow! wow!
this house looks oh so scary and i dont know you can live in it
you guys have very scary hunted looking houses
Sweet! That's some old rock! How do they figure out a rock's age?
i think it`s cool
wow thats cool!
This is really cool beans. Rad!!!
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wow thats amazing!
i think it's awesome
3.6 billion years is a long time
this is a very cool thing to see
It is cool that you can find rocks from so long ago. I love it at this museum. I love it here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's great! it's very interesting to learn about!
rocks ARE COOL
wow i didnt thinK they were so detailed
that is intresting
wow! that's really cool! I didn't know that!!!
that house looks like michial myers house from holloween the movie
That is so cool that they find them so long ago!!
WOW! ITS SO COOL THAT DINORSOURS LIVED SO LONG AGO AND IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF THE T-REX IS THE COOLEST!
i think that all of these petrified animal/dinosaur bones are pretty tight. i think that the place could be a little less dark, though. otherwise, this place is awesome. my favorite is probably the big armadillo type thing. i also like the air and the ping pong balls in the cafetiria, but the mac and cheeese could use some variety, because i always keep tasting the same cheese! but it was still good.
this was awesome....i agree with "a learning kid" about the petrified animal/dinosaur bones
I like rocks. I even have rose stone. It is this pretty pink color. It is my favorite. But mind you I would like to find a dinosaur bone or fossil.
I've been looking to have monument (gravestone) made of Fordham Gneiss, a grayish ortho- and paragneiss of graywacke origin, the archetypical bedrock in my native New York, especially the Bronx, where I grew up.
Fordham University's older buildings were constructed of Fordham Gneiss uncovered during subway construction, but that source and local quarries are no longer available. They faced their newest buildings with a Grenville Gneiss from upstate NY sold as "Corinthian Granite", but that is not available in a monument quality.
After a long search my monument dealer pointed me to commercially available "Rainbow Granite" whose pink somewhat matches the pink granites from New England and Canada favored here in Massachusetts, and whose foliations are reminiscent of the Fordham Gneiss. With a little research, the dealer told me that this stone is in fact Morton Gneiss from your state.
I'm glad I'll be able to have the attractive and meaningful monument made from your stone.
this is so cool where did you find it let us know!
this is so cool, i would come here everyday just 2 see this!!!!!! how did you find this information, and where? :P :) :( :0 :]]
that's nice
WOW ! i never knew that science was so interesting! This meuseum is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the fossils!
Tyler
hey girl, (or boy) hey! this is so fun, and i think that evryone should have a chance to come here in there kid years! I had a blast anyways! but yeah, we are from the black river falls, area. they call us the science geeks, there. my name is dawn, and my friends name is kira. thanks a bunch, and dont forget to leave a comment!!!!! much love and peace to all who read this!
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this was sort of not cool
this is awesome its sooooo kl 2 see that rock from 3.6 billion yrs ago is rite here in st paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! osm!
its like the cereal!
i guess that it is cool, but in wisconsin, we have things like that all over. especially in the chippewa valley. one of our highways is built right through a rock. sandstone i think?? but it is still pretty old compared to other things around there. people are predicting that it will soon collapes. pieces of sandstone are actually breaking off, and the erosion is starting to kick in:) i guess that minnesota needs to keep it's natural history.
thank you for sharing things like that! :)
this is pretty cool considering how long it has been around
wow this is soCool and its very educational!!!!!!
3.6 Billion years old??? I wanna grow that old too!!!
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!thats cool
super cool
this is the awsomes thig i ever sow
this is cool....
i'm amazed..
i've never seen anything like this before :)
Awesome! But I don't know if i can believe the age... How do you find out the age of a rock that long ago when it's only 2008!
ithink that is soo cool. it is intresting to learn about our history inour state!!!
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