Montana geology creates unusual earthquake risk that isn't fully understood From the Lincoln's 5.8 earthquake was Montana's biggest in decades.Here's our coverage series ...

Dr. John Metesh, director of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and state geologist, holds an old map of the Orphan Girl Mine in the archive at Montana Tech's Natural Resources Building in Butte.

DILLON, Mont. — Historians have largely focused on the flora and fauna Lewis and Clark documented in their push to the Pacific Ocean 200 years ago. But to really understand the pair's journey ...

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

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 ...

Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park’s speaker series is covering cave geology, birds and skulls June 10, 11 and 13. Stuart Parker will discuss mountain building that happened in the area, and how ...

One site in Montana tucked away amidst the mountains and valleys is full of Ringing Rocks, ordinary stones turned into musical instruments via geology.

Montana’s quake risk is unique, although the exact causes of it remain in debate, said Mike Stickney, seismologist at the Earthquake Studies Office of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology on ...

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 ...