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

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 ...

Mesyatsev Island was formed from Mesyatsev Cape around 1995 as water from a nearby glacier flowed toward the Arctic Ocean, ...

We have been ranked best value geology department in the country in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and recently no.15 in the top US Geology Schools table for 2024. The Department of Geology and Geophysics at the ...

Before undertaking an expedition to collect fossil primates, paleontologists first look to geologic maps of a region to determine if rocks of the right time period are actually present and exposed ...

Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than people could reach. Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when ...

Track real-time results in the US presidential election — with live interactive maps, updates from swing states and the ...

Resources found underground are called geological resources ... Take photographs and add descriptions and labels to a map. Remember to make sure you're with an adult when doing your fieldwork.

Work with expert faculty on cutting-edge research in one of the most geologically interesting landscapes in the U.S. The Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering offers research-oriented M.S.

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.