A recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment of previously undiscovered gas and oil in Texas' Permian Basin has found that ...

Researchers have confirmed that a rare geological process called lithospheric dripping is pulling pieces of the Earth’s lower ...

LARAMIE -- The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) recently published updated geological maps of the Rawlins and Red Desert Basin quadrangles, providing critical new insights into the geology, ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. The energy super basin's longevity, whose giant offshore fields have reliably supplied ...

BISMARCK - The U.S. Geological Survey will conduct a new resource estimate for the Williston Basin. Industry, along with Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., pushed for the reassessment in August when USGS ...

Ancient sea salt drilled from a geologic basin in Russia is providing dramatic new clues as to how Earth’s early atmosphere became oxygen-rich—allowing life as we know it to evolve. Buried deep ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

A research team recently estimated mean volumes of undiscovered conventional recoverable hydrocarbons in northern Afghanistan at 1.596 billion bbl of crude oil, 15.687 tcf of gas, and 562 million bbl ...

The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. According to researchers, the basin's vast oil and gas reserves are the result of a remarkable ...