Scholars and students of Grand Canyon geology will find that this fresh stratigraphic section nicely complements the many excellent treatises (e.g., Billingsley, 2000; Beus & Morales, 2002) and popular geology maps and texts on the Canyon.

Arizona is a major producer of non-fuel minerals. The future of Arizona mining rests on the following fact: each American uses more than 45,000 pounds of newly mined minerals annually!

Copper remains Arizona’s most abundant and valuable metallic mineral product.

Over the past century, Arizona geologists documented gold lode and placer mining deposits throughout the State.

Of the more than 300 active mines in Arizona in 2016, most involve quarrying industrial minerals.

Mineral rights can be obtained on State or Federal lands that are open to mineral entry.

Money can be made in mining but we have a responsibility to urge the public to exercise prudence in its investment.

A study by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) describes the size and distribution of a large potash deposit in the Holbrook Basin of east-central Arizona

Do you have questions about the minerals, rocks, valleys, canyons, mountains, rivers, volcanoes, earthquakes, earth fissures, landslides, or natural hazards of Arizona?

Natural hazards abound in Arizona. At the top of list: flash floods, severe weather, landslides and debris flows, earthquakes, and earth fissures.

Karst features and landscapes occur where rocks prone to dissolution by weakly acidic natural waters occur at Earth’s surface or in the shallow subsurface.

Earth fissures and subsidence threatens people and livestock, damages homes, roads, dams, and canals, and reduces property values.

arth fissures are open surface fractures that may be up to a mile in length, up to 15 ft wide, and 10s of feet deep.

Floods occur in each state and cost upwards of six billion dollars annually, disappearing as suddenly as they appear, leaving destruction and sometimes death in their wake.

Damage to structures in Arizona is commonly related to soil characteristics – shrink/swell soils and collapsing soils. Shrink/swell soils cause more damage to homes than do floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined.

Landslides in Arizona destroy homes, damage roads, disrupt utilities and infrastructure, and lead to deaths and injuries.

In Arizona, volcanic rocks and features are ubiquitous in space and time

Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.

Arizona has earthquakes; seismologists like to say, “Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings kill people”

Haboobs, drought, extreme heat & cold, torrential rains, dust devils and tornadoes, and hurricanes