Sometimes, significant scientific findings occur entirely by chance. This was exactly the case with the recent discovery of a ...

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

The National Environment Agency of Georgia on Thursday said specialists from the Geology Department of the Ministry of ...

Information about the gravitational fields of Mars has recently been analyzed and seems to reveal that there are a number of ...

A shockwave was sent through a Texas town about 40 miles south of San Antonio Thursday afternoon, November 14. Responses are ...

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious forces.

The larger, 6.8-magnitude quake happened at 11:49 a.m. Cuba time about 24 miles south of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, data from the ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those ...

New evidence collected by China's Zhurong rover makes a compelling case for the existence of ancient oceans on Mars.

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

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.