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 ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — To the wild laughs of their peers, four incoming freshmen from Barrow and villages Kaktovik and Nuiqsut performed a slapstick skit about the inner workings of Mount Drum stratovolcano that ...

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 ...

Most people think of Alaska as a land of glaciers, bears, and raw wilderness. What gets talked about far less is the ground ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Alaska Geologic Map shows the generalized geology of the state, each color representing a different type or age of rock. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...