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Stacia Gordon's record of sustained engagement and service to GSA and established career in geology helped gain her ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

Ammolite, a gemstone from southern Alberta, showcases brilliant colours from ancient marine shells. These fossils, over 70 million years old, possess ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

Dozens of earthquakes rocked the region, but a tsunami didn't seem imminent. Then the massive waves began crashing in.

After acquiring 75% of the Missoula, Mont.–based press’s list last year, the geoscience nonprofit is “focused on shepherding ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

Explore the impact of USGS cuts on water monitoring and the potential loss of vital contaminant data for millions.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a powerful earthquake on Thursday, which was felt throughout a major US city home to ...