The Brinkerhoff Geology Library supports students, faculty, and researchers with a focused collection of geological literature, maps, and data resources. It provides a quiet study environment and ...

The State has a new library – for rocks. The new Geologic Materials Center opened in Anchorage Wednesday in what used to be the old Sam’s Club. The facility is aimed at giving industry members, ...

Locate construction materials such as sand and gravel. Identify groundwater aquifers. Provide data about subsurface stability and risks. Evaluate sites for waste disposal facilities. Locate natural ...

For the past two centuries, scientists have struggled to replicate a common mineral in the laboratory under conditions believed to mimic its natural formation. However, a breakthrough has been ...

An international research team involving scientists from the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and Univeristy of Edinburgh has described the process of growing ...

The Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys has released maps depicting the likelihood of naturally occurring asbestos in bedrock in Alaska. Areas of potential and known occurrences are shown on ...

This architectural and geological walking tour of downtown goes beyond the typical architectural focus to include the provenance and geology of the buildings' materials. These sedimentary, igneous, ...

Dennis R. Dean, ‘“Through Science to Despair”: Geology and the Victorians’, Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, ed. James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait (New Jersey, 1985), ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A new state library in Anchorage is full of rocks, offering the public data core samples from around Alaska. The Geologic Materials Center opened Wednesday, replacing the ...