Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map etched in a clay tablet about 3,000 years ago, finding it features the ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa.

At the time, this was a new technology developed during World War II to detect submarines ... which occurs at the mid-ocean ...

Officials said lithium is growing in importance globally as a critical element in batteries as the world transitions from fossil fuels ... learning to plot lithium concentrations with geological data ...

At the time, this was a new World War II technology developed ... ocean ridges that she was the first to map,” says Paulette Hasier, chief of the Geology and Maps Division of the Library of ...

Many recent open-world games are so expansive that players need to invest over 100 hours just to uncover the entire map. Space-based open-world games take this even further, offering maps so large ...

To answer that question, Rojas-Agramonte needed evidence from the geology of the 'Ring of Fire', an area around the ocean with many earthquakes and volcanism, where oceanic plates dip ('subduct ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) is recruiting volunteers to collect and update USGS geographic data. Similar to how other online crowdsourcing cartographic applications allow anyone to collect, edit, ...

Dr. Ben Mirus and Dr. Francis Rengers with the U.S. Geological Survey have been using laser scans and GPS cameras, accurate down to one inch, to map out landslides caused by Helene. They hope ...