Arizona Geology

 Here are links to recent legislation introduced in the Arizona House that may be of interest to the geoscience community: HB2574 - Allow...

As part of a cooperative program with the National Park Service, AZGS geologists Phil Pearthree, Jeri Young, Ann Youberg are currently work...

I got up to the gem and mineral show at the Westward Look resort in Tucson today for a quick walk-through.   This is clearly where the big a...

 Dueling op-ed pieces over Rosemont, controversial actions by legislative leaders, heated debates over water use - just a typical week in th...

The Nature Conservancy's Climate Wizard web site offers a map view of climate change over the last 50 years (e.g., temperature, preci...

I've added Waterblogged to my Arizona links column on the blog.   Shaun McKinnon with the Arizona Republic covers the water world of Ar...

AZGS launched the new Earth Fissure Viewer today as an online, interactive map tool that displays over 330 miles of Earth fissures mapped...

One of the benefits of having 50,000 people in town for the world's largest gem, mineral, and fossil show, is that all kinds of related ...

Nevada edged out Arizona as the top non-fuel mineral producer in 2009, with total value of $5.51 billion vs $5.42 billion.     Utah was thir...

Kyle House has posted a set of photos on his blog, Geologic Frothing , showing channel changes in the Verde River over the past 18 years due...

Now that the country will not develop Yucca Mountain [right] for nuclear waste storage, Energy Secretary Steven Chu has formed a 15-member B...

ASU geologists Ramon Arrowsmith and Olaf Zielke used LiDAR to pin down more accurately the stream offsets along the San Andreas fault in t...

Rainwater in pit will cut Carlotta copper production http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0224890420100202?type=marketsNews Crash in coppe...

Nigeria was so focused with oil and gas revenues that mineral resources were largely ignored for years, but now the country is working hard ...

AZGS Section Chief Phil Pearthree is in the field with Kyle House from the Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology examining the aftermath of r...

Kudos to the American Geological Institute's Government Affair Program for their continuing great work - here is their summary of the ...

The streets are jammed and business in the tents, motel rooms, and other venues at the Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Sho...

Daily Galaxy interviews  UA planetary scientist, Richard Greenberg, the "world's leading expert on Europa" about where we mig...

You have to love the name - The Tao of Dirt - a web site developed by ASU soil scientist Heather Dye "dedicated to sharing knowledge...

 A team of geophysicists, funded by NSF, is in Haiti to use GPS for measuring deformation from the recent quake. They are now blogging about...