One of the best things I ever got to do in school was make geologic maps. There are compasses, hand lenses, rock hammers, measuring staffs and colored pencils involved. You get to go out ...

Many of these geologic maps had been completed after release of ... The associated database contains more than a dozen interrelated tables that make this release special; and unlike previous ...

Images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft were woven together to create geologic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta. The maps — the most detailed ones yet of of Vesta's surface features — serve ...

“The geological mapping is really the first thing you need when you make an earthquake-shaking hazard map,” he said. Strands of the Seattle fault extend to the Cascade foothills, and Frankel ...

Now, the United States Geological Survey has released the first geologic map of the Moon. Many scientists and astronomers have strived to understand the lunar surface. USGS, in a collaboration ...

This was done by making detailed geological maps, using the same principles that geologists use on Earth. Telescopic observers had already begun to draw general maps of the moon’s near side ...

Boettcher said planners will meet over the next year to discuss the impact of the newly mapped geology. To create the map, Troost and another geologist compiled geologic data from nearly 3,000 ...

The first effort to map the geology of the Moon was by the USGS ... These units are the mountains that make up the rim of the basin as well as the regional highlands around Copernicus, which ...

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects. A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State ...