Arizona Geology

Governor Jan Brewer will be at the Mines and Mineral Museum in Phoenix [right] at 9 am this Friday to announce a special project she is cha...

Heavy storms that swept across Arizona resulted in Centennial Wash flooding the small town of Wenden Arizona, for the second '100-year ...

 An exhibition of abstract artwork 'celebrating geological processes of the Earth' opened this weekend at the Conrad Wilde Gallery ...

 Brian Conway at AZ Dept. of Water Resources shared this InSAR image of the McMullen Valley in western Arizona.   The brighter colors show l...

Rosemont Copper is hosting a forum on the economic impacts of the proposed mine on Feb. 16, with sponsorship by the Tucson Hispanic and Gree...

A special exhibit, “ Treasures of the Queen: The Amazing Minerals and Mystery of Bisbee, Arizona, ” will run through May 31 at the UA Miner...

We're doing something new and different at the AZGS store in Tucson this week.   Well-known potter Oralia Lopez from the Mata Ortiz vil...

The USGS flood  ("High Flow Experiment") in the Grand Canyon in 2008 demonstrated significant sandbar development but the results ...

 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...