Arizona is subject to a wide array of geologic hazards. That includes flooding, debris flows or mudslides, landslides, gradual land sinking (called subsidence) and earth fissures, swelling and ...

Vesta, an asteroid the size of Arizona, gets its own geologic map showing its history of meteorite impact craters over its billions of years of existence. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region. That map could have a wide range of applications — from educating ...

To learn more about the history of geological mapping in the Grand Canyon region, visit The Grand Canyon Dragon Map exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona, which will be on display until ...

Before Moon Landing, Astronauts Learned Geology in Arizona July 08, 2019 12:00 PM ... Astronauts cobbled together a quick fix that included a map produced by geologists in Flagstaff.

Scientists combined 15 separate maps into one Vesta uber-map, which shows that meteorites have pummeled the asteroid since its formation about 10 million years after the birth of the solar system.

Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented ...