geology
Mount Vesuvius Italy

Geology News
Earth Science Current Events

feed Add to Google Reader or Homepage Subscribe in NewsGator Online Add to netvibes
topo map
USGS Opens Free Downloads of PDF Topo Maps
July 13, 2007 | USGS

USGS now has a location on their website where you can download over 60,000 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 scale topo maps. These are PDF documents that you can view with Adobe Reader. If you have a large format plotter you could print them at full scale. (When you arrive at their site, click the “Map Locator & Downloader” image.)

  Related Stories

Free Printable Topo Maps
April 24, 2008 | digital-topo-maps.com
Here's a Google map that serves USGS topo map tiles. You...

National Map Electronic Topo Quads
March 1, 2009 | All Points Blog
According to the All Points Blog, USGS will be producing electronic topographic...

Canadian Topo Maps - Custom Printed
August 17, 2007 | MyTopo
MyTopo has announced that they are now able to do custom printing...

Printable USGS Topographic Maps - FREE
March 30, 2009 | Digital Map Store
Here is a website where you can view and print as many...

Lifetime GPS Map Downloads
July 1, 2009 | Garmin
If you use a GPS in your car you probably have encountered...

USGS PDF Topo Maps
June 26, 2009 | USGS
USGS has launched the "Digital Map - Beta" which is a new...

New Geologic Map of Hawai’i from USGS
May 30, 2007 | USGS
USGS published new Geologic Maps of Hawai'i in eight full color sheets...

Free Printable Graph Paper
March 2, 2008 | Waterproof-Paper.com
Here's a site where you can download and print free graph papers...

Greenland Auctions Oil and Gas Tracts
January 16, 2008 | International Herald Tribune
Greenland plans to auction oil and natural gas exploration leases in a...

Printable Ternary Diagram Paper
May 29, 2008 | Waterproof-Paper.com
This paper can be difficult to find. Here's a website where...

Arizona Gold: Free Publications
January 28, 2009 | Arizona Geology
The Arizona Geological Survey has placed twelve of their gold publications online...

USGS Topo Map Price Increase
March 20, 2009 | USGS
USGS used to charge $6 for their 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle maps....

Printable State Maps for Teachers
August 22, 2008 | Waterproof-Paper.com
Teachers often need a source of free printable state maps for use...

American Mountaineering Museum Opens in Golden, Colorado
February 20, 2008 | Daily Camera
The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum opens this week in Golden, Colorado....

Free Triangular Graph Paper
February 24, 2009 | Waterproof-Paper.com
Need triangular graph paper for ternary plots? Here is where you...

Free Topo Maps
April 10, 2008 | Geology.com
Google has added contour lines to their terrain maps. They are...

An Ice-Free Arctic Ocean by 2013
January 7, 2008 | BBC News
A presentation by Wieslaw Maslowski at the American Geophysical Union meeting predicted...

USGS: National Geologic Map Database
September 29, 2007 | USGS
USGS has an online repository of geologic maps. There you can...

Free Access to Landsat Images
November 26, 2008 | USGS
"Scientists and decision-makers will soon have unrestricted global access at no charge...

Free Global GIS Dataset
January 12, 2009 | Unearthed Outdoors, LLC
Unearthed Outdoors, LLC is making a selection of True Marble global GIS...

Welcome! Every day you can find links to several earth science news topics right here. Bookmark this page and visit often. You can also receive them for free by RSS feed or in a daily email message.

Hobart King




East Africa Rift The East Africa Rift System: Learn some basics about the East Africa Rift System from this article by James Wood and Alex Guth of Michigan Technological University.


meteorites What are Meteorites? Join meteorite hunter, Geoffrey Notkin, as he begins a series of monthly articles on the topic of meteorites.


marcellus shale gas Marcellus Shale: The most overlooked resource in the eastern United States!


Mineral Rights Mineral Rights / Oil & Gas: Who owns the minerals under your land? Have they been sold? Can someone mine without your permission?


sliding rocks of racetrack playa Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa: How these rocks slide across a dry lake bed is a mystery. Learn what is thought to move them. © iStock / S. Hoerold


yosemite rockfall Spectacular Yosemite Rockfall:A photo sequence of the fall and debris avalanche by Herb Dunn.


coal through a microscope Coal Through a Microscope: Coal is more than a black rock. It's THE most interesting rock.



geoscience search
Search Hundreds of
Geoscience Websites


© 2005-2009 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved.
Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.