This map has been designed as a tool for use by emergency managers in planning for the response to and recovery from a major earthquake disaster. It also may be useful to land use planners and regulators as a generalized ...

Many geology terms come from mining. In mining, "hanging wall" tells you where the roof of the tunnel is, and "footwall" tells you where the floor of the tunnel is. In fault systems, these terms now mean top and bottom and ...

This color map shows the geology of South Carolina, including coastal plain, triassic, Blue Ridge and Piedmont, intrusive igneous rocks, significant structural features and significant wave-cut scarps.

This sheet gives the geologic events in South Carolina broken down by eon, era, period and epoch.

This sheet describes what happens during an earthquake as applied to the different values of the Mercalli Intensity Scale.

In South Carolina, geologists have recently discovered evidence of at least five large paleoearthquakes during the past 5,000 years. This sheet describes the earthquakes with pictures and diagrams.

In 1999, South Carolina ranked 24th among the 50 States in the total nonfuel mineral production. The estimated value of 1999 was $574 million, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This was a 2% increase from ...

This diagram show how the different kinds of rocks (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic) are formed.

This sheet describes the four basic types of volcanoes: fissure volcano, cinder cones, composite volcanoes and shield volcanoes.