North America is home to the Great Lakes—Huron ... Lake Agassiz’s vast basin stretched from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Appalachians in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean to ...

THE Great Basin of North America presents the most singular contrasts of scenery to the regions that surround it. East of it rise the dark pine-covered heights of the Rocky Mountain system ...

America’s National Park Service is more than 100 years old. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the NPS on ...

I sped across a golden basin full of sagebrush and edged by hillsides spotted with pinyon and juniper trees. We were at mile 135 of a 400-mile drive across Nevada’s high desert to Great Basin ...

Following the Great Basin study, the USGS will conduct a similar geothermal resource assessment in North Dakota's area of the Williston Basin.