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No, this EarthWord isn’t a trait of adult petroleum basins, but it is related to how old they are...

It is difficult to overstate the importance of energy to the American economy.  Managing this vital sector depends on knowing how many energy...

This EarthWord is probably what you’ve been doing thanks to our fantastic puns...

This EarthWord may sound infinite, but it actually refers to a type of finite resource...

Everyone’s seen the news–scientists discover a new species of fly and name it for Beyonce; scientists discover a new species of monkey and auction its...

Editor:  In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne...

A carbonatite here, a glacial moraine there, a zig-zagging fault or two, even a behemoth of a batholith. The geology of the 50 States is an enormous...

Editor:  In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne...

The Dnieper-Donets Basin of Ukraine could contain an estimated 4.3 billion tons of undiscovered potassium-bearing salt according to a recent U.S...

The U.S. Geological Survey has evaluated three methods for estimating how much oil and gas could be produced by injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into...