Arizona Geology

Why can't scientists and engineers step in and stop the oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico? After all, we see resolution of sim...

A new report by the USGS finds that "backwaters may represent a sink for organic matter that enters from the main channel and that st...

A M2.0 earthquake was recorded Monday afternoon in northwest Arizona, near the Utah border. The quake is in an area of historical seismici...

A Mars mapping project at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute concludes that the 2,000 km diameter and 8 km deep Hellas impact bas...

Over the weekend, the Arizona Republic ran a story questioning the scientific credentials of Robert "R.B." Trombley, who runs th...

Police took control of Grupo Mexico's Cananea copper mine from striking workers on Sunday. The Mexican mine isabout 40 km south of the A...

There's a new blog, Mineral Museum Madness , written by someone identified only as 'Zebra,' that blasts the transfer of the Ariz...

So, who you gonna believe? My friend Tom, who follows the mining market pretty closely, forwarded links today to a couple of analysts rep...

UA planetary scientist Richard Greenberg calculates that the subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa could have an oxygenated layer m...

A new study published by UA geologist Bill Dickenson and colleagues in Geology finds that detrital zircons in Michigan were "deposit...

Science Foundation Arizona was highlighted by Inc. magazine as one of the nations best programs to spur innovation in the market place and...

Fluvial geomorphology http://www.youtube.com/user/gravelbar Geomorphology http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geomoph/emriver/index.html ...

There are scores of science channels on YouTube and a fair number of geology-themed ones. Here's a sampling of geo channels with a fair...

An article by Ryan Randazzo in the Arizona Republic nominally reports on John McCain complaining about the halting of the Yucca Mountain nu...

ASU planetary scientist Steven Ruff is second author on a study to be published tomorrow in Science that concludes carbonates are more wides...

The EnergyCollective blog reprinted part of an article published in Fuel Cycle Week (V9:N375 May 6, 2010 by International Nuclear Associat...

Diana Liverman, a geography professor who co-directs the UA's Institute of the Environment, will receive the Founders Gold Medal from th...

The greater Phoenix metropolitan area is one of 30 across the country that will be analyzed to see how geothermal ground loop systems (heat ...

Coronado National Forest officials announced that they now expect the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Rosemont Copper pr...

The Mojave-Sonora megashear model was challenged at the monthly dinner meeting of the Arizona Geological Society, by Alex Iriondo, from the...