geology

(13,5x18cm) Norangsdalen, Hjørundsfjord, Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal. Fjell...

(13,5x18cm) Norangsdalen, Hjørundsfjord, Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal. Fjellparti.

map from "The Coal-Regions of America; their topography, geology and d...

This image has been taken from scan 000044 from "The Coal-Regions of America; their topography, geology and development. With a colored geological map of Pennsylvania ... and numerous other maps and illustratio... More

NF.01002-162 - Norsk Folkemuseum

NF.01002-162 Public domain image of 19th-century Norway, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

map from "[Principles of Geology ... Reprinted from the sixth English ...

This image has been taken from scan 000601 from volume 01 of "[Principles of Geology ... Reprinted from the sixth English edition, etc.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags... More

map from "A Geographical Dictionary, or Gazeteer of the County of Corn...

This image has been taken from scan 000210 from "A Geographical Dictionary, or Gazeteer of the County of Cornwall ... With a treatise on the geology of Cornwall ... by Brenton Symons. [With maps.]". The title a... More

National parks: Pterosaur - public domain image

"Quetzalcoatlus northropi" is a flying reptile known as a pterosaur. It lived during the Cretaceous. This prehistoric creature is the largest known flying animal in Earth’s history Fossils of "Quetzalcoatlus" h... More

Layer Upon Layer - National Parks Gallery

Because it does not have as much vegetation covering the buttes, the North Unit is a perfect place to really see the layer upon layer of sediments that make-up of the badlands.

Grand Canyon National Park - Shasta Ground Sloth

"Nothrotheriops shastensis" is known as the Shasta Ground Sloth This large animal lived during the Pleistocene. Fossils of "Nothrotheriops" have been discovered in many national parks This list includes Carlsba... More

Nesoddbåten går forbi Flaskebekk på Nesodden. Fotografert 1931.

Fotoarkivet etter Rolf Sundt sr. (1881-1956) ble overlevert til Norsk Folkemuseum i 2010. Sundt hadde praksis som overrettssakfører i Oslo og var ivrig amatørfotograf. Fra ca. 1920 til sin død bodde han i Thoma... More

left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003...

Subject: Escallon, Marion Schmidt 1912-2003, Sinclair Oil Company, Geological Survey (U.S.), University of Michigan, Texaco (Colombia), Petroleum.....Type: Black-and-white photographs.....Date: 1937, Dec-37....... More

Lunar Samples - Apollo XII (Thin Sections)

Microscopic views of Apollo XII Lunar rock sample thin sections, with and without polarized light. 1. Lunar Sample - Apollo XII (Thin Sections)

Grocery Store Tectonics (1 of 5) Without Labels

A grocery store checkout counter can be used to demonstrate the gradual growth of a continent via terrane accretion. The conveyer belt represents the oceanic plate subducting beneath the continental plate. The ... More

Boxwork in caves, Wind Cave National Park, 2014.

Boxwork is an uncommon mineral structure called a speleogen, which means it was formed by erosion rather than accretion like a speleothem. Boxwork is made of thin blades of calcite projecting from cave walls an... More

Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National Park, 2015.

Mosaic Canyon showcases many geologic features! The canyon is formed by a system of cracks (faults) that developed millions of years ago. Running water seeped into the faults for many centuries, gradually carvi... More

Patterned ground, Noatak National Preserve, 2015.

Patterned ground is often symmetrical geometric shapes formed by ground material in periglacial regions (areas on the edges of glacial regions). Typically found in remote regions (and even observed on Mars) thi... More

08-13-17 Blue Mesa Trail HL - Public Domain image, National Parks Gall...

The eroded area along the Blue Mesa Trail Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Illustration of Magma Chamber - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

Magma accumulates in a chamber beneath a volcano as lava erupts through the summit and along fissures on the flanks. At times the magma inflates and erupts a large volume of material that partially empties the chamber.

Landscapes of North Cascades National Park

Snow-covered Mt. Baker, looking west from the North Cascades National Park, Washington. The active volcano results from the ongoing subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate beneath North America. It pokes up throug... More

Evolution of Hawaiian Volcanoes

The Big Island of Hawaii is the most volcanically active place on Earth. Off and on for the past 700,000 years, material has been pouring out, piling flow upon flow onto the growing shield volcanoes. Unlike com... More

Diagram of a hotspot showing the upper layers of the Earth. (2 of 3)

Diagram of a hotspot showing the upper layers of the Earth and volcanoes on the surface as the tectonic plate moves over the hotspot.

Virgin Islands National Park - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

Virgin Islands National Park is a sheared-up landscape forming as the Carribean Plate slides eastward past the oceanic part of the North American Plate.

RED CLAY SOIL CAUSES MUCH OF THE SILTATION PROBLEM IN THE LAKE OF THE ...

Public domain image - Environmental protection federal program, the 1970s, color photographs, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The dinosaurs of North America (7183429891)

U. 5. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PART I PL. VI HALLOPUS VICTOR Marsh. Jurassic.

The dinosaurs of North America (7183437163)

U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PART I PL. XI ALLOSAURUS FRAGIL1S Marsh. Jurassic.

A popular guide to minerals - with chapters on the Bement Collection o...

Identifier: popularguidetomi00grat (find matches) Title: A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mine... More

Annual report (1913) (14758233486)

Identifier: annualreport191302onta (find matches) Title: Annual report Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Mines Subjects: Mines and mineral resources Publisher: Toronto Contributing Library: Ge... More

Geology (1907) (14589958567) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: geology00cham (find matches) Title: Geology Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Chamberlin, Thomas C. (Thomas Chrowder), 1843-1928 Salisbury, Rollin D., 1859- joint author Subjects: Geology Publisher: ... More

Scottish geographical magazine (1885) (14596666708)

Identifier: scottishgeograph25scotuoft (find matches) Title: Scottish geographical magazine Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society Subjects: Geography ... More

The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17971814838)

Title: The American Museum journal Identifier: americanmuseumjo10amer (find matches) Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: Natural history Publisher: New York : Amer... More

[Washington, D.C. public schools - 6th Division children in geology cl...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "Public Schools - 6th Division." Caption card tracings: DC; Schools Classes; Shelf.

Geological map of the district between Portage Lake and Montreal River...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

ammonites from "Elementary Geology"

This image has been taken from scan 000137 from "Elementary Geology". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

New index geological map of the British Isles, and adjacent coast of F...

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Mt Taranaki from "New Zealand, its physical geography, geology and nat...

This image has been taken from scan 000050 from "New Zealand, its physical geography, geology and natural history, with special reference to the results of Government Expeditions in the provinces of Auckland an... More

Map from "The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain ... Sixt...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain ... Sixth edition, edited by H. B. Woodward". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f... More

Werk Lusern - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek public domain dedicat...

Teilansicht des Frontgrabens, Dolomiten, Trentino. Fotograf Flamm. Public domain photograph - Austro-Hungarian army during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. C.K. Leith, Consultant on Minerals, Office of Production Managemen...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Wisconsin, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

PHOTOMICROPHOTOGRAPHY- GEOLOGY ( SEM), NASA Apollo program

PHOTOMICROPHOTOGRAPHY -GEOLOGY (SEM) High magnification and resolution views ... More

Glacier Landforms: Paternoster Lakes, Grinnell Valley

A series of beautiful paternoster lakes lines the floor of Grinnell Valley in Glacier National Park (Montana).

Thermal kame north of Dude Hill

Thermal kame north of Dude Hill

Types of Glaciers: Tidewater Glacier, Margerie Glacier II

Visitors on a cruise ship approach the terminus of the tidewater Margerie Glacier (Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska).

Great Basin landscape, Great Basin National Park, 2013.

Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Canyon de Chelly, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 2015.

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glacier Landforms: Till, Kennicott Glacier

Till blankets the Kennicott Glacier forefield (Wrangell-St Elias National Park, Alaska).

Long's Peak reflects on the surface of Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain Nati...

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Lake Lucero, White Sands National Monument, 2016.

Mountains surrounding the monument contain large amounts of gypsum, a hydrous (i.e., containing water), soft sulfate mineral. Rainfall and snowmelt from the mountains dissolves the gypsum, carrying it down to t... More

08-13-17 Blue Mesa Trail - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Overlooking the Blue Mesa Trail Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

08-13-17 Blue Mesa Trail HL - Public Domain image, National Parks Gall...

The blue and purple banded badlands along the Blue Mesa Trail

08-13-17 Blue Mesa Trail HL - Public Domain image, National Parks Gall...

Along the Blue Mesa Trail Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Columnar basalt at Overhanging Cliff

Columnar basalt at Overhanging Cliff Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

West Coast Tectonic Evolution—Today [3 of 3]

The Cascades are the modern volcanic arc developing where the Juan de Fuca Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate. The Sierra Nevada are the eroded remnants of the volcanic arc developed when the Faral... More

Shear Zone Illustration - National Parks Gallery

The broad zone of shearing at a transform plate boundary includes masses of rock displaced tens to hundreds of miles, shallow earthquakes, and a landscape consisting of long ridges separated by narrow valleys.

NPS Sites in Alaska - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

The terrane accretion that built Alaska onto the rest of North America over the past 200 million years includes the continental collision that formed the Brooks Range in the northern part of the state. The Nort... More

Tela Royston, a Navy Gateway Inns & Suites program

Tela Royston, a Navy Gateway Inns & Suites program analyst, pauses for a photo while reading "The Hobbit" at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 29, 2019. Reading is one of Roston's favorite hobbies in Misawa. She ha... More

Greater Pacific Northwest—Three Types of Plate Boundaries and a Hotspo...

The Yellowstone Hotspot track is superimposed on other tectonic provinces of the Pacific Northwest. The hotspot first surfaced 17 million years ago as massive outpourings of fluid basalt lava in the Columbia Pl... More

Continental Rift Block Diagram - Drawing. Public domain image.

National Park Service sites in continental rift zones reveal long mountain ranges separated by deep valleys (basins) that are partially filled with sedimentary and volcanic material. Earthquakes (white stars) o... More

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Adapid Primate

"Ekgmowechashala zancanelli" is a small lemur-like adapid primate that lived during the Oligocene. It is shown in a hackberry tree. Fossils of "Ekgmowechashala" have been found at John Day Fossil Beds National ... More

Map of the western part of the state of New York, 1823

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Diaries, 1845-1899; 1861, June 15-1862, May...

Geology of the gold belt in the James River basin,

Spine title: Geology of bold river in verginia. Also available in digital form.

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Printed matter...

Royal Ontario Museum of Geology & Mineralogy, Canada (NBY 5452)

Royal Ontario Museum of Geology & Mineralogy, Canada

Mississippian Oval Hoe Blade Collected near Henry Clay Spring in St. L...

Mississippian oval hoe blade made from banded Burlington chert. This chipped stone tool was found near Henry Clay Spring in St. Louis, Missouri.Title: Mississippian Oval Hoe Blade Collected near Henry Clay Spri... More

ETH-BIB-Friedlaender-Popocatepetl, Aufstieg-Hs 1309-0037-065

Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12736369295...

r 02 PBOF. OWEN ON TFIE RANK AND AFFIMI'li Fig. 10. 33 Amblyrhynchus. Fig. 20. Fig. 21. Python.

Allegany County (1900) (14774285921)

Identifier: alleganycount00mary (find matches) Title: Allegany County Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Maryland Geological Survey Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916 O'Harra, Cleophas C. (Cleophas Cisney), 1866-1935 Clark... More

The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geolo...

Title: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology Identifier: annalsmagazineof661890lond (find matches) Year: 1840 (1840s) Authors: Subjects: Natural history; Zoology; Botany; G... More

Geologic map and sections of Manhattan Island, State of New York

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

General geological map of Colorado - Public domain map

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

David Octavius Hill - Sir Charles Lyell - Geologist

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and photographer. He was a pioneer of photography in Scot... More

world from "[Principles of Geology ... Reprinted from the sixth Englis...

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Darwin from "What Mr. Darwin saw in his Voyage round The World in the ...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "What Mr. Darwin saw in his Voyage round The World in the Ship “Beagle.” [Compiled and adapted from “Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of... More

map from "What Mr. Darwin saw in his Voyage round The World in the Shi...

This image has been taken from scan 000243 from "What Mr. Darwin saw in his Voyage round The World in the Ship “Beagle.” [Compiled and adapted from “Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of... More

map from "Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood. A series of sketches of its s...

This image has been taken from scan 000080 from "Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood. A series of sketches of its scenery, antiquities, geology ... With an etching and illustrations, etc". The title and subject terms... More

microscope from "[Aids in Practical Geology ... With ... illustrations...

This image has been taken from scan 000130 from "[Aids in Practical Geology ... With ... illustrations.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Britis... More

dinosaur from "[Manual of Geology: treating of the principles of the s...

This image has been taken from scan 000763 from "[Manual of Geology: treating of the principles of the science with special reference to American geological history ... Revised edition.]". The title and subject... More

dinosaur from "[Manual of Geology: treating of the principles of the s...

This image has been taken from scan 000776 from "[Manual of Geology: treating of the principles of the science with special reference to American geological history ... Revised edition.]". The title and subject... More

map from "The Great Rift Valley. Being the narrative of a journey to M...

This image has been taken from scan 000434 from "The Great Rift Valley. Being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. With some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology, and fut... More

Geological map of the Mother Lode region

Mother Lode region Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Sauropod Dinosaur - geologic resources division

"Apatosaurus louisae" is large plant eating sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic Fossils of "Apatosaurus" have been discovered at Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah.

Tre voksne og to unge menn bader ved Farøy i Farsund. Fotografert rund...

Fotoarkivet etter Rolf Sundt sr. (1881-1956) ble overlevert til Norsk Folkemuseum i 2010. Sundt hadde praksis som overrettssakfører i Oslo og var ivrig amatørfotograf. Fra ca. 1920 til sin død bodde han i Thoma... More

Oslo. Christiania. Blyantskisse av John Edy: Drawings, Norway, 1800. "...

Blyantskissene er forarbeid til "Boydell´s Picturesque Scenery of Norway," London 1920. Skissene skulle senere overføres til fargeakvatint og er derfor påført fargehenvisninger.

To gamle kvernhus i Åseral 1943.

The photograph is from Anna Grostøl's collections. The collections consist of written notes, photographs, films and textile samples. The extensive material is a result of Anna Grostøl's (30.4.1894 - 4.1.1962) s... More

Boulders on road at Gibbon Falls following 1959 earthquake

Boulders on road at Gibbon Falls following 1959 earthquake Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The fossil featured here is a leaf of a Macginitiea wyominensis, which...

YELL_92942: The fossil featured here is a leaf of a Macginitiea wyominensis, which is a member of the sycamore family. This particular plant existed during the Eocene, between 50 and 34 million years ago.

Microbial Mats; n-239 roof, Greenhouse one: close up of section of the...

Microbial Mats; n-239 roof, Greenhouse one: close up of section of the Morison stromatolite

Desert Bighorn Sheep - National Parks Gallery

Once extirpated from the park, desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) thrive again on Zion's east side.

Blue Mesa Member, Chinle Formation NPS

The colorful banded Tepees are Blue Mesa Member, Chinle Formation. Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Owl Rock Member, Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Wildernes...

Owl Rock Member, Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Close up of petrified wood, Petrified Forest National Park1a

Close up of petrified wood, Petrified Forest National Park1a

Glacier Landforms: Hanging Valley, Birdwoman Falls

Bird Woman Falls (Glacier National Park, Montana), in the background of this photo, cascades from a glacially-sculpted hanging valley. When this area was occupied by glaciers, the smaller tributary glacier occu... More

Moqui Marbles, Zion National Park, 2014.

Concretions are hard, compact masses of matter formed by precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles. They form within sedimentary strata that has already been deposited before the rest ... More

River valley, Bryce Canyon National Park, 2015.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Types of Glaciers: Valley Glacier, Fraser Glacier

The Fraser Glacier (Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska) is a valley glacier, confined by mountains on either side.

Entrance to Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, 2015.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cathedral Canyon, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 2015.

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water dropping into a cave pool, Timpanogos Cave National Monument, 20...

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Cleopatra's Pool in Gap Cave, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park,...

Gap Cave (formerly known as Cudjo's Cave) is one of over 30 caves found in Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. Ranger-led tours of Gap Cave are offered throughout the year.