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 ...

Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in ...

From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

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 ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment in 1879. Congress created the USGS to “classify the public lands and examine ...

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects. A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State ...

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 ...

Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System is a grey, barren world to our human eyes. In stark contrast, this map shows a portion of the surface in a patchwork of colour, each shade ...

The world’s first high-definition geologic atlas of the whole Moon on a scale of 1:2.5 million was officially unveiled on April 21. The atlas, both in Chinese and English, includes the Geologic Atlas ...

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 ...