ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

More colorful places to visit in Utah include the Blue Hill Badlands, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Goblin Valley State Park, and Buckskin Gulch. Road trips and scenic drives are great opportunities to ...

For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

The three geologic formations in Pennsylvania with the highest levels of cancer-causing radon are all in southern Lancaster County, a new federal study finds. The study from the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Learn about geologic formation on Mars that resemble spiderwebs, serving as records of ancient groundwater flow on the planet ...