Arizona Geology

We just heard from the Coronado National Forest that the public is invited to attend public meetings hosted by the Natural Resources Conserv...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck the north rim of the Grand Canyon at 8:44 pm local time last night, about 23 miles north of Grand Canyon ...

The weather experts have been weighing in with radar and satellite images to explain the origin of Tuesday evening's haboob that buried ...

You don't normally find appropriations bills to be very pithy reading, but the House Energy and Water Full Committee FY12 budget report ...

Informal word from the post-fire response meeting in Sierra Vista yesterday is that the Horseshoe II fire burned 70% of the Chiricahua Mount...

Attention, geo-geeks, Cambridge University Press has just released Geoinformatics - Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences , which...

The new Arizona Mining Permitting Guide is available online for viewing and free downloading at the AZGS Document Repository. The 187-pa...

Amazing videos of last night's dust storm or haboob, that surged over the Phoenix valley are popping up all over the internet. There...

Plans by major producers for up to a 50% expansion of world potash production could saturate the market, but a story by Ian Berry on DowJone...

Alfred McEwen [right, credit UA] professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , (LPL)...

Petrified Forest National Park overlies about 1/4 of the Holbrook basins massive potash deposit in eastern Arizona, but mining and even expl...

We had another small, magnitude 2.0 earthquake yesterday morning, along the Utah-Arizona border, about 22 miles east of Fredonia, AZ. [ rig...

The National Interagency Fire Center is predicting above normal wild land fire potential for the northern half of Arizona for the month of ...

The Forest Service's Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team has completed its assessment of post-fire hazards for the Horseshoe II fir...

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee released a draft of the FY 2012 Appropriations Act for the Department of the Interior, Environment,...

The current issue of the Arizona Hydrological Society newsletter offers a positive assessment of new Deputy and Assistant Directors appointe...

Phoenix tv station Channel 12 broadcast this 4 minute report on last nights monsoon dust storm or haboob, that swept across the Phoenix vall...

A massive " haboob " dust storm rolled across the Phoenix valley last night, shutting down Sky Harbor Airport for over an hour. ...

Brian Conway reports that the Arizona Dept. of Water Resources has updated their land subsidence maps , using interferometry (InSAR) data ac...

The American Geological Institute reports in its monthly Government Affairs Report that "Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced the Geoth...