Mostly the drive was a rolling, daylong education in basin-and-range geology: Climb up to a 7,500-foot pass in a ridge of chocolate brown mountains (a "range"), descend to a broad brown valley (a ...

A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...

A new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and ...

Here's a walk through the geologic history of North America ... the continent relaxed, and the Basin and Range province opened in the Southwest. The last little bits of the Farallon plate remain ...

Arizona can be divided into three physiographic zones, each distinct and unique from the other. They are: the Colorado Plateau, the Arizona Transition Zone and the Basin and Range Province.

stated Elk Range Royalties. The DJ Basin is a large geological region in north-eastern Colorado and south-eastern Wyoming, stretching into parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas. This deal ...

“And I was walking past the Schnitz and on the marquee it said, ‘John McPhee tonight,’ and I was a big fan of reading John McPhee’s ‘Basin and Range' and his other books about geolog ...

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as the prime Tier 1 acreage. Despite record U.S. crude oil production ...