In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Helicopters sporting long appendages are flying over some rural areas of the country, including here in Colorado. Many of ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

New seismic map reveals 892 active faults across Greece, offering the first comprehensive database of the country’s tectonic ...

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

Only from the air did it reveal what it really was.

The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the ...

Executive SummaryWhat Can States Do?Foster cross-agency coordination on hazard mitigation and climate adaptationRequire ...

The last time Vermont mapped out the rock underlying the Newport Quadrangle, many scientists still thought Earth's continents ...