Editor's note: “Roadside Geology of Montana” is winner in the Medicine and Science category of the 2021 High Plains Book Awards. Tourists from around the world flock to Montana to observe our region’s ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: In the final installment in our series on geothermal energy, its availability in the West and the implications ...

The Gardiner thrust fault has been mapped in detail from the west side of Cinnabar Mountain, Montana, where it appears from under a cover of Tertiary volcanics, southeastward to a point 3 miles east ...

DILLON - A University of Montana-Western geology professor, Rob Thomas, has been selected for the Geological Society of America's Distinguished Service Award. Since 1995, Thomas has led 10 society ...

During the coming summer Professor J. E. Wolff and Dr. G. R. Mansfield, of the Geological Department, intend to conduct a course in the form of a field expedition in the Rocky Mountains of southern ...

The region is composed mainly of sediments of the Belt series and of gneisses and schists in the immediate vicinity of the Idaho batholith. The structures become more complex as one approaches the ...

Here are a few things to do on a highway trip: Play 20 Questions, plug your kids into some sort of electronic anodyne, lose your mind. Here's another idea: Look for gneisses and amphibolites; seek out ...

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.

James A. Peterson, a petroleum geologist and retired geology professor at the University of Montana, stashed rocks all over the place, recalled his two sons. "I grew up not only with rocks, but with ...