The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a latter-day Lewis and Clark expedition: EarthScope, a scientific exploration of the structure and evolution of the North American continent, and the ...

Planet Earth behaves in mysterious ways. It bucks and heaves and shudders when earthquakes strike, its volcanic mountains erupt in fire and brimstone, and its continents and undersea slabs of thick ...

Arlington, Va.-- When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark across the nation to explore the American West in 1803, the world knew little about western America. The discoveries the ...

EarthScope, an enormous, nationwide earth science project, is poised to revolutionize understanding of earthquakes, fault systems, volcanoes and the North American continent's structure. EarthScope, ...

In a major effort to understand the unpredictable seismic forces that can rip the Earth apart and endanger millions, scientists near the Monterey County village of Parkfield have drilled down more ...

The earth sciences have rapidly moved toward the study of “geosystems”—complex systems involving many scientific disciplines, well expressed in natural laboratories where the processes can be studied ...

It's not often geology and national security wind up in the same sentence. Most people don't think about electrical power in connection to either the ground under their feet or solar flares overhead, ...