Marie Tharp, an oceanographic cartographer who drew pioneering maps of the world’s oceans and whose observations from the late 1950s through the 1970s helped scientists reconsider the geology of the ...

Ever wondered if there was a volcano under your home? Well, now you can find out by using the British Geological Survey's (BGS) new OpenGeoscience portal. It allows the public to study all the UK's ...

An unprecedented effort to map the seafloor bordering California's coastline has produced some of the most detailed, beautiful and useful maps of an underwater landscape ever made. No fewer than 18 ...

To you, an educated person living in 2017, it may seem obvious that the world beneath your feet consists of rock, rock, and more rock, some molten rock, then a bunch of hot iron and nickel down at the ...

David Rothery is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer) that is now on its way to ...

Some parts of Oklahoma and Texas now have about the same risk of an earthquake as parts of California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The big difference is, the quakes in Oklahoma and Texas ...

Maps represent the real world. Cartographic means anything relating to the drawing or making of maps. Atlas maps show large areas and Ordnance Survey maps show smaller areas in more detail. Sketch ...