U.S. Congress created the agency to “classify the public lands and examine the geological structure, mineral resources and ...

The United States of America may literally be sitting on top of buried treasure! Deep beneath the soil of southwestern ...

THE present short article is a reversion to an aspect of the subject of geologic time which I had thought to be settled, and to require no further research or controversy. In my review of Mr ...

The rarity of precious gemstones comes down to the geologic process of their formation. Sparkling diamonds and verdant emeralds are some of the most coveted and priciest gemstones. But which ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

Simon Winchester - author of The Map That Changed the World ‘O’Hara does a great job of covering both the old (late 1800s) and the new (1960–70) history of geology. Included are informative, but ...

Open Monday-Saturday 10 am- 4 pm, Closed Holidays 2024/2025 Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday closures and reduced hours schedule below. Samuel H. "Doc" Knight, the legendary Wyoming geologist, was an ...

The University of Dayton Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences has a strong focus on the environment and sustainability, with an integrative curriculum that trains students to solve 21st ...

Geology is broadly the study of the Earth and other planets, moons, and smaller planetary bodies. Fields of geology range from the initial formation and differentiation of the Earth to modern ...

The Department of Geological Sciences offers Master of Science (MS) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degree programs. Students interested in graduate work in the geological sciences should carefully read the ...

A group met at the University of Alaska Fairbanks last week to brainstorm a possible new economy for Alaska and clean energy source for the world — geologic hydrogen. We bump into hydrogen every ...

Geologic maps are not an exact depiction of the Earth’s surface. Instead, geologic maps display a generalization of interested units and features in correspondence with the scale of a map.