The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) is part of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. DGGS’s main office is in Fairbanks on College Road near Beaver Sports. DGGS is ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near an area northwest of Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, according to an initial report from the US Geological Survey. The tremor occurred at 1711GMT in the area of ...

The earthquake-generating geology between Alaska and Washington is very similar. That’s because large portions of both states sit on top of a giant fault, where crustal plates are being shoved past ...

The internal combustion engine is less than 100 years old. Same for the technologies we have developed to pull oil and gas from the ground. It’s hard to imagine life without our cars and planes and ...

Sitting at a window seat on a recent flight from Seattle to Fairbanks, I looked down on Alaska from 35,000 feet. There was my home river, the Tanana, flowing gray and braided from near the Canada ...

Tectonics and sedimentation of forearc, fold-thrust, and strike-slip orogens Physical sedimentology and petrology of clastic deposystems, including detrital geochronologic studies to evaluate sediment ...

A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher is among the scientists who have revealed the metamorphic history of a high-grade graphite deposit on the Seward Peninsula. The Graphite Creek deposit is ...

Preface. The people before : an introduction to Adak, Alaska / Dixie West -- The central Aleutians Archaeological and Paleobiological Project / Dixie West ... [et al.] -- One hundred forty years of ...

Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska's ...

“These aren’t the right kind of rocks,” Tony Fiorillo said, pointing at the jagged pink and black stones along Alaska’s Yukon River. The sun blazed down on Fiorillo on the 14th day of a 16-day ...

Scientists said the juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 8,425 miles in 11 days, a nonstop Pacific crossing tracked by a tiny solar-powered satellite transmitter.

This field book documents Nelson's field work near St. Michael and the Yukon area (including Anvik) in Alaska between 6 October and 6 December 1880. During this time, Nelson was on general assignment ...