Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...

Many people in the U.S. may be drinking water with "forever chemicals" in it, according to a  U.S Geological Survey ...

According to estimates from a new USGS predictive model, exposure to certain PFAS chemicals may pose health risks. An ...

Additional tags to hunt and harvest deer were announced after a fatal disease was confirmed in parts of south-central and ...

New evidence collected by China's Zhurong rover makes a compelling case for the existence of ancient oceans on Mars.

A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that more than 20% of the nation’s population relies on water sources that ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

Open Monday-Saturday 10 am- 4 pm, Closed Holidays 2024/2025 Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday closures and reduced hours schedule below. Samuel H. "Doc" Knight, the legendary Wyoming geologist, was an ...

Huntoon earned her PhD in Geology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her first academic appointment was as an Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech. She is a member of a number of STEM-related ...

Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states -- more than 20% of the country's population -- may rely on groundwater that contains detectable concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...