The U.S. Geological Survey will be flying airplanes over parts of Eastern Iowa starting this month to help make new maps for ...

The geologist said that the material that is left for extraction in Goa is only laterite. Panaji: 'Geology and Mineral Resources of Goa', a book by renowned geologist Professor Ashoka G Dessai, was ...

Longtime friends Eugene Genova and Ron Russ share an unusual hobby: They hunt dinosaurs. And sometimes, they actually find them. The amateur paleontologists, who attended Sachem High School South and ...

In the summer, the U.S. Geological Survey began large-scale low-level airplane flights over the Upper Peninsula and northern ...

On a geological field trip to Quincy, Harvard scientist Francis Macdonald discovered a 582-million-year-old tillite, a type of sedimentary rock. The rock is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural ...

Minerals are all around us. In fact, our planet is made of minerals. To be considered a mineral, a substance must have a definite chemical composition. Quartz, for example, is silicon dioxide. Some ...

One day in October 1820 two young men, Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes, were hiking on a hill in Maine called Mount Mica when they spotted a glowing, green stone on the ground. They picked it up and ...

While crystals and unique rock formations inspire awe and wonder in the natural world, they can also serve as muses for paintings, photographs and mixed media works of art. Visitors to the Orlando ...

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) has published new landslide maps that identify 257 existing slides in the 48 square miles covered in the Portland area maps, with the ...

FLINT, Michigan — Nearly $12,000 in minerals have been stolen from one of Mott Community College’s greatest gems. Among the 50 items that went missing this month from MCC’s geology museum are a small ...

Vang Danh coal mine, with more than 5,000 employees, is one of the biggest mines in the northern border province of Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA) The plan aims to bolster socio-economic development, ...

My husband jokes that, as a biologist and general wildlife lover, I'm only interested in something if it has four legs and a tail. And he is pretty much right – it has to be really special to draw my ...