Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

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 ...

Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) dedicated in his textbook "De re metallica" (1556) an entire chapter to the distribution of valuable rocks in earth's crust. The written ...

One of The Museum of Northern Arizona’s current exhibits spotlights the famous Grand Canyon Dragon Map created by George Billingsly, and others, and evaluates its history and ongoing impact on ...

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects. A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State ...

Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System is a grey, barren world to our human eyes. In stark contrast, this map shows a portion of the surface in a patchwork of colour, each shade ...

I still remember a cartoon in a newspaper in July 1969, just before the first Apollo moon landing. It showed the ground crew reminding the astronauts as they boarded their rocket, “Don’t forget to ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians ...

The U.S.Geological Survey released the first digital geologic map of Alaska on Tuesday, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to ...

More of Mercer Island may be vulnerable to hazards like landslides and earthquake damage than previously thought, according to a new geologic map of the island developed by a University of Washington ...