Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. he Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series vitrophyre at Gibbon River This photo shows the exposure of the Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

USGS released its most detailed national geologic map, offering layered views of geology beneath the Earth’s surface across the lower 48 states. The Cooperative National Geologic Map integrates data ...

Reston, VA – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) announced that they have developed an updated geologic time scale and color scheme for use in ...

The biggest state has a brand new map. Geologic Map of Alaska Since William Smith’s publication of the first geologic map of England in 1815, geologists have used maps to show the distribution and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new study conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (ADEE) discovered a method to "quantify the amount of ...

The long and complex geological history of Mars, notably the history of its water, can be unraveled by understanding the relative and absolute ages of the planet’s geological units, which have been ...

The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age, newly-ratified as the most recent unit of the Geologic Time Scale, began at the time when agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt and critical ...