Wired

Maps of ecosystems and geology of the United States

I was quickly scanning through my favorite blogs and such last night and saw this map posted at Wired Science. For a half a second I thought I was looking at a new geologic map, but it is actually a ...
Scientific American

Early Maps of Geologic Strata, an Oliver Sacks Documentary and a New Science Podcast

Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Chicago Press, 2020 ($65) Strata are the ribboned horizontal layers of minerals and ...
GPS World

USGS publishes digital geologic map of Alaska

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to resource extraction, ...
Wired

Wildly Colorful Geologic Maps of National Parks (And How to Read Them)

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...
UPI

USGS publishes first digital geologic map of Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 5 (UPI) --The United States Geological Survey has published the first digital geologic map of Alaska. The new map incorporates the theory of plate tectonics, revealing the ...