The atmosphere is the superhighway in the sky that moves water everywhere over the Earth. Water at the Earth's surface evaporates into water vapor, then rises up into the sky to become part of a cloud ...
Low-level airplane flights will begin as soon as early November over northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota to image geology using airborne geophysical technology.
Plots of earthquake magnitudes (top) and numbers (bottom) over the course of the July 8 - August 25, 2025 seismic swarm at Mount Rainier, Washington. The swarm was greatest in terms of numbers of ...
We sometimes think of Yellowstone as an untouched landscape, but humans have been present in the area for over ten thousand years! The history and traditions of Indigenous people in Yellowstone are as ...
Summary: The Halema'uma'u eruption of Kīlauea is currently paused after episode 56 fountaining ended on November 5. The summit is reinflating and the next episode of lava fountaining is likely several ...
Yellowstone has numerous hot springs, but not all of them boil at the same temperature. This is because the boiling temperature depends on the surrounding pressure and on the amounts of gases and ...
RESTON, VA. — The U.S. Geological Survey released its assessment of potential for undiscovered oil and gas in formations under the Los Angeles Basin, assessing that there are technically recoverable ...
U.S. mineral production contributed more than 105 billion dollars to the U.S. economy in 2023—a 4 billion dollar increase over 2022—according to the Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024, released ...
Geochemical, mineralogical, and isotopic evidence for multi-stage genesis of the Hicks Dome REE + Y-HFSE-fluorite deposit, Illinois, USA Geochemical, mineralogical, and isotopic evidence for ...
Yellowstone Caldera activity remains at background levels, with 66 located earthquakes in October (largest = M2.0). Deformation measurements indicate no significant uplift or subsidence of the caldera ...
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) 2026 WorkshopApril 13–17, 2026 — USGS Headquarters, Reston, Virginia USAJACIE 2026 continues a long-standing tradition of bringing together ...
Imagine for a moment that you could turn back the clock some two-hundred years or so and embark on a journey from east to west across the North American continent. Imagine that you had never heard of ...