Arizona is subject to a wide array of geologic hazards. That includes flooding, debris flows or mudslides, landslides, gradual land sinking (called subsidence) and earth fissures, swelling and ...

The map could have applications from educating tourists to helping prospectors find gold and communities prepare for landslides. Arizona-based scientist developing geologic map of Southeast Alaska ...

Geologic map of Jupiter's moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface Date: March 19, 2012 Source: Arizona State University Summary: More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the ...

Small-scale maps cover relatively large areas and to date, are the most common scale of geologic map in planetary science. These are often completed at scales of between 1:500,000 to 1:5,000,000.

Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented ...