MISSOULA, Mont. — John LaFave has been appointed interim director of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (MBMG), following the departure of longtime director Dr. John Metesh. “I have had the ...

Larry Smith, Montana Tech associate professor and department head of Geological Engineering, has had a technical article published in the Quaternary Science Reviews. The paper is titled "Repeated ...

During the coming summer Professor J. E. Wolff and Dr. G. R. Mansfield, of the Geological Department, intend to conduct a course in the form of a field expedition in the Rocky Mountains of southern ...

Petr Yakovlev, a geologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, looks at a map of the area while standing on Stemple Pass Road Thursday near the epicenter of the early-morning earthquake.

Interested in learning about the physical world around you? Why it looks the way it does? How it works? From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on each Saturday in July, the Wise River Community Foundation will host a ...

A multimillion dollar expansion and renovation project is underway in Helena, Montana for the Montana Historical Society. Led by 80-year-old architecture firm Cushing Terrell, the Montana Heritage ...

The release of accumulated glacial water on Mt. Rainier late Tuesday resulted in a rise of the Nisqually River in Washington state--and the sounding of a brief geological alarm. Mt. Rainier National ...

Editor's note: “Roadside Geology of Montana” is a finalist in the Medicine and Science category of the 2021 High Plains Book Awards.

MISSOULA — The earthquake south of Lincoln that shook people from Spokane to Billings occurred along a fault not previously mapped by seismologists, which is not surprising in a region less studied ...

The earthquake south of Lincoln that shook people from Spokane to Billings occurred along a fault not previously mapped by seismologists, which is not surprising in a region less studied than the ...