USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

In August, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released its most extensive geological map to date. It's called The Cooperative National Geologic Map, and it provides an interactive look at the ...

Maps are an important tool for learning about the world around you. Some maps are designed to show what roads will take you where, and others are designed to tell you about the actual land in a given ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns. A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths A ...

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

The first fully digitized geological map of Alaska, the product of two decades of work, was released Tuesday by the U.S. Geological Survey. To create the map and its voluminous supporting material, "I ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) ...

DR. ELLES has lectured for several years past on this subject to women students at the University of Cambridge, and the well-printed and fully illustrated book under notice is based upon the course of ...

More of Mercer Island may be vulnerable to hazards like landslides and earthquake damage than previously thought, according to a new geologic map of the island developed by a University of Washington ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly created geological map of Pluto's famous heart-shaped region shows just how varied and ...

SOON after the occupation of Egypt by a British military force in 1882, the late Prof. Huxley, then president of the Royal Society, directed attention to the valuable opportunity that was afforded for ...