A view of the Stikine River near Wrangell and Petersburg. (Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of ...
Vesta, an asteroid the size of Arizona, gets its own geologic map showing its history of meteorite impact craters over its billions of years of existence. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...
The Arizona Geological Survey is conducting something akin to a going-out-of-business sale. The survey’s new digs at the University of Arizona are one-fourth the size of its current offices in the old ...
Images from NASA’s Dawn mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.
A new study highlights the striking coincidence in the geologic ages of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona and a landslide dam that blocked the Colorado River, forming a paleolake in the Grand Canyon ...
Arizona’s Meteor Crater, a timeless scar from a cosmic collision 50,000 years ago, continues to unveil its mysteries, ...