World's First Geologic Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time A map drawn on papyrus more than 3,000 years ago helped spur the search for mineral wealth in modern Egypt.

Astronomers say new full-color map shows location and concentration of most active hot spots and lava fields on Jupiter moon's surface ...

The massive slabs of red rock that make up Red Rocks Amphitheatre are the result of hundreds of millions of years of forces like geologic uplifts, erosion, the rise and fall of inland seas, and ...

You should take geology because it will fundamentally transform the way you see the world. I mean this literally. Understanding geology gives you a new way to interpret the visual data of the planet.

Scientists with the European Space Agency have rendered the dull, gray world of Mercury in bright colors as part of a new mapping effort.

The William & Mary Department of Geology has acquired a world-class mineral collection that geologists say will be a valuable resource in the department for many years. Professor Brent Owens of the ...

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. In beautiful color and excellent detail, the map shows 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, ...

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Simon Winchester, . . HarperCollins, $25 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019361-4 ...

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 Summary: More than 400 years ...