The Truckee Meadows basin is situated adjacent to the Sierra Nevada microplate, on the western boundary of the Walker Lane. Being in the transition zone between a range-front normal fault on the west and northwest-striking right-lateral strike slip faults to the east, there is no absence of faulting in this basin. The Reno-Sparks metropolitan area is located in this basin, and with a significant population living here, it is important to know where...

Includes gravity data for entire state of Nevada and adjacent parts of California, Utah, and Arizona. About 80,000 gravity stations were compiled primarily from National Geophysical Data Center and USGS. Data files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), and disc also contains installers for Adobe Acrobat readers for Window and Macintosh.

Provides instructions on how to conduct experiments, explains scientific terms, and teaches fun science facts.

On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya. After the fall of Qaddafi, Benghazi had been transformed into a hotbed of fundamentalist fervor and the center of gravity for...

Detailed geologic mapping, spring and two-meter temperature data, and gravity and magnetic data constrain the structural controls of the high-temperature (>175°C) geothermal system at Gerlach. The system lies along the termination of a major normal fault at the southern end of the Granite Range in the southern Black Rock Desert, a known favorable setting for geothermal activity. Mapping of Quaternary deposits documents Holocene movement on the north-northeast-striking,...

Traces the period between Copernicus's theory about the sun's location at the center of the universe through the early days of atomic theory, offering introductory portraits of such contributors as Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and Isaac Newton