Ever wanted to know more about the ground beneath your feet? Well, thanks to a new geologic map of the lower 48 states of the ...

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

Geologic maps don’t make headlines. You probably haven’t seen one unless you work in energy, construction, or science. Yet, over the past century, these documents have quietly shaped the way ...

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 ...

Researchers have created a unique map of the moon that reveals the geological make-up of our natural satellite. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the so-called "Unified ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon.

Drawing on data from satellites and Apollo-era missions, scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute have pieced together what they say is the first ...

More of Mercer Island may be vulnerable to hazards like landslides and earthquake damage than previously thought, according to a new geologic map of the island developed by a University of ...

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 ...

Writing on the topic of geological maps in the Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey in 1885, geologist Jules Marcou (also, incidentally, the original owner of the copy of the map that ...

Using data harvested by the New Horizons spacecraft over the course of its July 14, 2015 flyby, NASA scientists havecompiled a geological map of a vast swathe of Pluto's surface. It is hoped that ...