The map could have applications from educating tourists to helping prospectors find gold and communities prepare for landslides.

Finally, in 1988, the agency became the Arizona Geological Survey. The survey is in charge of fine-scale geologic mapping and hazard analysis, said Michael Conway, chief of the agency's Geologic ...

Io's varied surface features include mountains, volcanic domes, plains, and lava lakes. The Arizona State University astronomers say the new full-color map shows the location and concentration of ...

It’s called the bottomless pit but it’s not. “It’s open fractures and cave features as far down as 2,000 feet below the surface,” said Don Bills with the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff.

The Legislature restored the $941,000 annual appropriation for the Arizona Geological Survey when it passed a $9.8 billion state budget last week, ending more than a year of uncertainty about the ...

High-resolution new maps show the cratered, rocky surface of the huge asteroid Vesta in unprecedented detail, researchers say. Images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft were woven together to ...

The Arizona Geological Survey is conducting something akin to a going-out-of-business sale. The survey’s new digs at the University of Arizona are one-fourth the size of its current offices in ...

Images from NASA’s Dawn mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta.

More dangerous earth fissures are popping up in the Queen Creek area. So the Arizona Geological Survey has already revised and reissued maps that were released just this past April of the area's ...

Sunday afternoon in Yavapai County saw the ground shake with an earthquake hitting central Arizona according to the United States Geological Survey. According to the USGS Earthquake map, a 3.8 ...

This new map of Vesta, which uses a Mollweide projection, reveals the asteroid's geological history. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University ...

A group of scientists has produced the first global geologic map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.