The USGS is a scientific agency that studies the landscape of the US, so they’ve been amassing data useful to hikers and ...

Examples of Hawaii geologic maps. The lefthand map is a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory map created on Sept. 17 within hours of remote sensing (helicopter overflight) of the eruption that ...

First-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon Date: April 22, 2020 Source: US Geological Survey Summary: For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has added more earthquake related visualizations for Google Earth. A couple of weeks ago they released a large collection of visualizations for GE as part of the ...

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to resource extraction, ...

Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.

Drawing on more than 750 sources and featuring hundreds of pages of supplemental material, a new map of Alaska's surface geology was a two-decade labor of love.

Ryan Crow, Ph.D. is a research geologist at the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Geology, Minerals, Energy and Geophysics Science Center here in Flagstaff. On January 12, Crow will give ...

USGS It took 16 years and data from four orbiting spacecraft to assemble, but the U.S. Geological Survey's new map of Mars is awesome.