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 ...

(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 ...

Geologic maps don’t make headlines. You probably haven’t seen one unless you work in energy, construction, or science. Yet, over the past century, these documents have quietly shaped the way ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The lunar map, called the 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon,' will serve ... Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of 14 scientists led by David Williams of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration has completed the first global geologic and tectonic map of the asteroid Vesta.