Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and ...

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

A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea 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 ...

Sometimes, significant scientific findings occur entirely by chance. This was exactly the case with the recent discovery of a ...

corresponding thus to Sheet 56 of the General Staff Map of Russia ... It has been dealt with first on account of a series of geological explorations which have already been made within its ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those ...

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.