Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also ...

New research conducted at Iowa State University led to the successful creation of a detailed Quaternary geological map for the Des Moines Lobe with a user-controlled level of scale, with the results ...

Geologic map and sections of Manhattan Island, State of New York (1898) (all images via New York Public Library Map Division) One of the more intriguing items is a geologic map of Manhattan from 1898, ...

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to recreation, resource extraction, ...

For 15 months between 2011 and 2012, the Dawn spacecraft orbited the asteroid called Vesta, snapping high-resolution pictures of the cratered, potato-shaped rock. Scientists then spent another two and ...

We only ever see one side of the moon and, most nights, only parts of it are visible. But this week, scientists released one of the most detailed maps of the moon ever created. The new map, born out ...

THE first of these works is by a long way the best and most convenient geological map of the British Isles, both for lecturers and students; and this new and greatly revised edition has added ...

Parents looking to occupy their children during spring break with an educational excursion can tap the wealth of destinations detailed in a new edition of a guide to Utah’s diverse rock formations – ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.