Arizona Geology

More photos are coming out, showing rescues and people stranded by the floods caused by Sunday's dam breach in a side canyon to the Colo...

Update 5:50 pm 8-17-08 , from az211 : On Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008 , in the late afternoon and evening, the northern Arizona hi...

The Arizona Division of Emergency Management's (ADEM) redesigned Web site, www.dem.azdem.gov, was launched July 1. The site contains inf...

The Redlands Dam, an earthen dam on Cataract Canyon [corrected 9:25 pm, 8-17-08] near the Grand Canyon, failed early this morning after heav...

Climate will be changing the most in the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico, according to a new study in press in Geophysical Resear...

Lynda Williams [ right ] Associate Research Professor in the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, is the 2009 winner of the Marion L....

Today's newspaper are full of stories about mining in Arizona. The AZ Republic (Phoenix) reports that "Freeport-McMoRan and Southe...

The Arizona Dept. of Water Resources posted subsidence maps for basins across Arizona created using interferometry (InSAR) data. PDF image...

If you have $20 million laying around, you can click on the "buy it now" button on eBay and pick up the Yellow Jacket and Phoenix...

Phoenix-based Southern Copper Corp. announced that it will produce 606,000 tons of copper in 2008, rather than the expected 717,000 tons. T...

The New York Times ran a feature story on the approval of water rights for 80,000 new homes in the Kingman area. The Times story states, ...

A podcast of the Mark Brodie KJZZ interview with ASU professor Stanley Williams about Volcanic Arizona is online . A second piece covers W...

Oil prices fell below $114 a barrel yesterday as OPEC and the International Energy Administration predicted lower growth in demand and even ...

The red dust particles that "color the Martian sky pink, feed storms that regularly envelop the planet and produce Mars' distincti...

The front page story in today's Tucson Citizen describes one man's concerns over the proposed Rosemont copper mine. It's a goo...

The new issue of Newsweek describes ASU as " a leader in the movement to radically redesign higher education and the role of universit...

The Basin and Range basin-fill aquifers that supply groundwater to most of the population of Arizona (and all of Nevada, parts of So. Calif,...

The debate over expanding offshore drilling in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) has moved into at least two of Arizona's congressi...

We've all been following the day-to-day stories from the Phoenix Mars Lander but Richard Kerr, science writer with Science , put togethe...

Last week, I posted a link to an article in Science about the growth in geoscience careers. It turns out that was just one of a trio of art...