The world's first geologic map -- an 1815, hand-tinted, 10-feet-by-6-feet chart -- has gone on display at the Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library.

Rare earth minerals have become the backbone of modern technology, fueling everything from smartphones and electric vehicles ...

OneGeology has been dubbed ‘the biggest mapping project ever’ and its basic premise is to create the first ever digital geological map of the world and make it universally available via a web portal..

The 1960 Copernicus Prototype Chart LPC-58, the first true geological map of the Moon, was not formally published by the USGS, though a modified and updated version was published later in that decade.

Published by the U.S. Geological Survey, the map technically illustrates the varied geologic character of Ganymede’s surface, and is the first complete global geologic map of an icy, outer ...

First global geologic map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede details an icy world Date: February 12, 2014 Source: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ...

U.S astronomers have created the first complete geologic map of Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon, Io. With 425 volcanoes dotting its surface, Io is more than 25 times more volcanically active than ...

The map combines the best images obtained during flybys conducted by NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (1979) and Galileo orbiter (1995 to 2003) and is now published by the U. S. Geological ...

The geology of a world a few hundred million miles away is one of those other things. Nevertheless, the United States Geological Survey just released a geologic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede ...

Solvang Library invites local adventurers to explore the world of geologic map reading at a free workshop, Adventures in Geology: Map Reading and the Story of the Dibblee Maps, on Thursday, July 25.

Completion of this map celebrates the 200th anniversary of world’s first geologic map by William Smith of England in 1815.” This map detail, of the Anchorage area, shows the city spread out on a plain ...