Pt 1. Rocks, concepts and processes:Introduction -- The Great Basin -- Raw materials of the Great Basin -- Understanding the earth -- Time, the relentless flow -- Fossils, the timekeepers -- The ...

Far from a barren desert, Dr. Chip Carroon, retired geologist, photographer and world traveler, considers the Great Basin a uniquely fascinating place because of its great diversity and complexity of ...

Reconstructing late Pliocene to middle Pleistocene Death Valley lakes and river systems as a test of pupfish (Cyprinodontidae) dispersal hypotheses / Jeffrey R. Knott [and others] -- Western North ...

MOST OF THE GIANT oil fields on earth, elephants, are found in passive margin shelves like the Paleozoic passive margin shelf of the Great Basin of western Utah and eastern Nevada. These shelf ...

There are some places that are quintessentially Nevada. Great Basin National Park is one of them. It's the kind of place to visit if you get excited about watching shadows cast by clouds float across ...

Editor’s note • This Great Salt Lake Collaborative story is part of day one of our series, “At water’s edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the Great Basin.” The ...

The University of Nevada, Reno received funding to begin drilling geothermal test wells this fall in the final phase of a multi-year research project to refine exploration strategies and reduce the ...

Geology student Sabina Kraushaar won best in presentation for the Basin and Range session at the 37th Annual Geothermal Resources Council Meeting in Las Vegas. More than 150 presentations were given ...

US Agency Says Geothermal Energy in Nevada's Great Basin Could Play Larger Role (Reuters) -Geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and adjoining states could produce electricity equivalent to ...

Structural models, and gravity data calibrated with well data, are used to identify depth of the buried Pilot shale. Commercially available gravity data are available as disparate gravity surveys of ...

Dr. William Harrison is professor emeritus in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Western Michigan University. In his 30 year teaching career, he supervised and served on ...