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 ...

As a geologist at the Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, I create standardized geologic maps on Mars that are published by the U.S. Geological Survey. In celebration ...

(WIFR) - The Boone County 3D Geologic Mapping project helps specialists understand ... and every pass they make will be taking a swath of land and looking at the subsurface to a depth of about ...

“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 ...

Therefore, diagnostic criteria from the field or lab is usually required to distinguish their geographic extents when compiling a geologic map. Geologists make field excursions to document ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...