USGS released its most detailed national geologic map, offering layered views of geology beneath the Earth’s surface across the lower 48 states. The Cooperative National Geologic Map integrates data ...

Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in ...

Now you've got one less excuse not to venture into the wilderness. National Geographic just launched a website that lets you find and print a PDF of any U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) quad map across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated ...

The USGS has released its first-ever map of where the mineral pyrrhotite may occur in the contiguous United States. This research was mandated by Congress in the FY2019 appropriations bill for the ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has published a new set of maps to observe the destruction caused by Hawaii’s Volcano Kilauea. The government agency continues to publish maps at a fast cadence as they ...

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Lincoln, Montana on Thursday was the area’s strongest in 60 years. The tremors from this quake stretched for hundreds of miles across the state, and residents as ...

The Cooperative National Geologic Map offers a complete and detailed look at the bedrock and fault systems of the continental United States. The first geological map of the United States was published ...

From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

Somewhere beneath the iron-rich bedrock of Minnesota, Kansas, and the southern Appalachians, water is reacting with ancient ...