Outreach & Geoheritage
The San Pedro River is Arizona's last undammed river. Joe Cook and his colleagues at the Arizona Geological Survey recently mapped the extent of Holocene channel and floodplain alluvium there.
Geoheritage
Arizona’s Grand Canyon, its volcanoes, mountains, mesas, plateaus, rivers and washes are among the most spectacular geologic features on Earth. The wise and prudent use of Arizona’s lands, landscapes, and mineral resources is essential to preserving our geoheritage for future generations. Learn more about these amazing features, view photos and maps, or take a virtual tour.
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Bringing geology and geologic processes to Arizonans in the classroom, meeting room, town hall or civic event has long been a role of the AZGS. Our online interactive maps along with our popular Down-to-Earth series of prominent geologic settings are viewed by 1000s each year.
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Earth science education is the key to building a science-literate citizenry capable of making informed decisions regarding our stewardship and sustainable use of finite earth materials. The role of AZGS is to provide teachers and students with resources to better comprehend the processes that shape our landscapes and provide our mineral resource.
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Geoheritage
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SP Crater, northern Arizona | SP Crater, a cinder cone in the north-central San Francisco volcanic field of northern Arizona, is believed to be ~ 55,000 years old (late Pleistocene).
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The horseshoe-shaped inner basin of the San Francisco Peaks is a collapse caldera that formed prior to the extrusion of Sugarloaf Dome, at least 80,000+ years before the present.
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Puebloan Hilltop Ruin near Cardenas in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Photo by Brian Gootee.
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Chiricahua Mountains | Cochise County, Arizona | Rhyolite hoodoos along Heart of Rocks Loop, Chiricahua National Monument.
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Join Arizona Geological Survey geologist Steve Rauzi and a team of Conoco geoscientists as they raft through Grand Canyon examining the Precambrian Chuar Group.
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Earthquakes happen in Arizona. This 90-second time-lapse video illustrates the distribution of historical earthquakes in Arizona
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Earth fissures crop out in five Arizona counties: Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal Counties. This illustration shows the distribution of earth fissure study areas as of 2015.
Educators
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In 2015, AZGS worked with FEMA contractor, FLASH, to bring an earthquake simulator - Quake Cottage - to the Yuma Palms Regional Center in Yuma, Arizona.
