A papyrus map discovered around 1820 and now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, illustrates the topography and geology of Wadi Hammamat in the mountains of the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. It ...

An Egyptian treasure map discovered 200 years ago is unique, as it shows the geology of the mountains surrounding ancient gold and silver mines. This map predates modern geological maps by almost ...

One of the basic principles of geology is that younger rocks lie on top of (or intrude into) older rocks. Interestingly, this relationship can be discerned from a photograph.

The geology of a world a few hundred million miles away is one of those other things. Nevertheless, the United States Geological Survey just released a geologic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede ...

Books Received Published: 23 July 1891 Geological Map of Monte Somma and Vesuvius Nature 44, 271–272 (1891) Cite this article ...

The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take measurements over a large swath of central and western Massachusetts.