Nearly two dozen state geological surveys depend heavily on federal funds. A proposed budget cut could slow or stop key ...

Petr Yakovlev, a geologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, looks at a map of the area while standing on Stemple Pass Road Thursday near the epicenter of the early-morning earthquake.

Huge, broad geological maps of Montana. Brightly colored, punctiliously detailed quadrangle maps at 1:100,000 scale.

These geologic hazards are identified in a series of new maps recently issued by the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology that are available to the public. The maps discuss the hazards and ...

The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology is now working to update a statewide fault and landslide database with the new information about Paradise Valley and the northern entrance to Yellowstone.

We begin a three-part interview this morning with Montana Western Regents Geology Professor Rob Thomas. He and Donald Hyndman recently finished the 2nd edition of Roadside Geology of Montana.

After years of trying to make paper maps work on computers, the U.S. Geological Survey wants digital maps to work like paper ones. “We’re trying to make the maps look and feel like the old ...

With more trips planned for this fall and next summer, there is strong hope that the map will be done before the park's 150th Anniversary in 2022!

Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park’s speaker series is covering cave geology, birds and skulls June 10, 11 and 13. Stuart Parker will discuss mountain building that happened in the area, and how ...

Petr Yakovlev, a geologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, stands on Stemple Pass Road on Thursday near the epicenter of the early morning earthquake looking at a map of the area.

Montana geology creates unusual earthquake risk that isn't fully understood From the Lincoln's 5.8 earthquake was Montana's biggest in decades. ... In this map, faults are color ...

MISSOULA — The earthquake south of Lincoln that shook people from Spokane to Billings occurred along a fault not previously mapped by seismologists, which is not surprising in a region ...