Using laser scans and GPS cameras, accurate down to one inch, the U.S. Geological Survey has so far mapped more than 600 ...

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 ...

The ‘Noble’ Moose in Newfoundland: Introduced to the island 120 years ago, moose are involved in hundreds of motor vehicle ...

We have been ranked best value geology department in the country in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and recently no.15 in the top US Geology Schools table for 2024. The Department of Geology and Geophysics at the ...

His courses included Earth Surface Processes (Geo 103), Sedimentology (Geo 210), and Quaternary Paleoclimatology (Geology 310). Mike also taught a field-based short term unit: Limnology and ...

Simon Winchester - author of The Map That Changed the World ‘O’Hara does a great job of covering both the old (late 1800s) and the new (1960–70) history of geology. Included are informative, but ...

According to highly cited conventional models, cooling and a major drop in sea levels about 34 million years ago should have led to widespread continental erosion and deposited gargantuan amounts ...

Arching over 8,849 metres (29,032ft) into the sky, Everest is the world’s tallest mountain. But will it always be? To understand the life that might survive deep below Mars' surface, we can look ...

Google Maps and Waze have a lot of things in common, which makes sense considering Google is responsible for them both. But no matter how many updates happen, and how small the gap becomes ...

The event will be co-led by State Geologist Dr. Keith Schilling and Quaternary Geologist Phil Kerr. The Iowa Geological Survey is part of IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering (IIHR) in the College ...

This study investigates the history of graphitic carbon in two ancient North American mountain belts related to Nuna supercontinent assembly. Using rhenium–osmium and uranium–lead dating, the ...

The Department of Geological Sciences offers Master of Science (MS) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degree programs. Students interested in graduate work in the geological sciences should carefully read the ...