Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 54. Geologic and Environmental Dynamics of the Pontchartrain Basin (FALL 2009), pp. 12-22 (11 pages) The Pontchartrain Basin extends over 44,000 km² from ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

Two main points emerge: the Congo discharge levels were markedly unstable during the second half of the century, decreasing steeply over the last decade; and, although the discharge fluctuations are ...

The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. According to researchers, the basin's vast oil and gas reserves are the result of a remarkable ...

KINGS BEACH, Calif. — Ever wonder how Lake Tahoe came to be? Lake Tahoe’s creation tells the story of global tectonic forces that took place over millions of years, involving thousands of miles of the ...

LARAMIE — The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) recently published updated geological maps of the Rawlins and Red Desert Basin quadrangles, providing critical new insights into the geology, ...

Finding shooting star flowers and orchids in the no-frills Mojave Desert sounds like an impossible task, yet they’ll be blooming in April and May at Calico Basin. Located near but outside of Red ...

Bida basin, the least studied of Nigeria’s inland frontier basins, is believed to have oil and gas resources. No exploration wells have been drilled. Researchers are studying geophysical data and ...

A substantial amount of petroleum was recently discovered in the Carboniferous volcanic reservoir of the Chepaizi Uplift in the western Junggar Basin, yet the source is still indefinitive. Geochemical ...

A U.S. Geological Survey representative told the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission in August that arsenic ...

A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency. This is a ...