The Rock Garden displays 19 large rock specimen. It is located between the Founders and Founders North buildings, and is a focal point on campus.
The 19 large rocks range in weight from about 100 pounds to nearly a ton. There are five sedimentary rocks, six metamorphic rocks, and seven igneous rocks. Twelve of the specimen come from Texas.
The oldest rock, a 3.5 billion-year-old gneiss from Wyoming, is about three-quarters of the age of the Earth. It is a sample of one of the oldest known rocks in the United States.