We begin a three-part interview this morning with Montana Western Regents Geology Professor Rob Thomas. He and Donald Hyndman recently finished the 2nd edition of Roadside Geology of Montana. Ford ...

Editor's note: “Roadside Geology of Montana” is winner in the Medicine and Science category of the 2021 High Plains Book Awards. Tourists from around the world flock to Montana to observe our region’s ...

HELENA - First Lady Nancy Schweitzer said her father, a geologist, used to explain the state's geology to the rest of the family when they traveled. The family kept a copy of the book "Roadside ...

The Yellowstone Valley, between the Gallatin and Beartooth ranges in southern Montana, is the easternmost of the Tertiary basins characteristic of the Northern Rockies. It is a structural basin ...

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 ...

The Gardiner thrust fault has been mapped in detail from the west side of Cinnabar Mountain, Montana, where it appears from under a cover of Tertiary volcanics, southeastward to a point 3 miles east ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana Western is celebrating faculty members recently recognized by various organizations at the national level. Regents Professor of Geology, Dr. Rob Thomas, ...

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.

James A. Peterson, a petroleum geologist and retired geology professor at the University of Montana, stashed rocks all over the place, recalled his two sons. "I grew up not only with rocks, but with ...

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