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Publications from the staff of the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
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First ever release of USGS offshore arctic resource assessment
No abstract available.
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Donald L. Gautier, Kenneth J. Bird, Ronald Charpentier, Arthur Grantz, David W. Houseknecht, Timothy R. Klett, Thomas E. Moore, Janet K. Pitman, Christopher J. Schenk, John H. Schuenemeyer, Kai Sorensen, Marilyn E. Tennyson
A Collection of Chemical, Mineralogical, and Stable Isotopic Compositional Data for Green River Oil Shale from Depositional Center Cores in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
For over half a century, the U.S. Geological Survey and collaborators have conducted stratigraphic and geochemical studies on the Eocene Green River Formation, which is known to contain large oil shale resources. Many of the studies were undertaken in the 1970s during the last oil shale boom. One such study analyzed the chemistry, mineralogy, and stable isotopy of the Green River Formation in the
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Michele L.W. Tuttle
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Arctic
Among the greatest uncertainties in future energy supply and a subject of considerable environmental concern is the amount of oil and gas yet to be found in the Arctic. By using a probabilistic geology-based methodology, the United States Geological Survey has assessed the area north of the Arctic Circle and concluded that about 30% of the world’s undiscovered gas and 13% of the world’s undiscover
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Donald L. Gautier, Kenneth J. Bird, Ronald Charpentier, Arthur Grantz, David W. Houseknecht, Timothy R. Klett, Thomas E. Moore, Janet K. Pitman, Christopher J. Schenk, John H. Schuenemeyer, Kai Sorenson, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Zenon C. Valin, Craig J. Wandrey
Helicopter Electromagnetic and Magnetic Geophysical Survey Data for Portions of the North Platte River and Lodgepole Creek, Nebraska, June 2008
This report is a release of digital data from a helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey that was conducted during June 2008 in areas of western Nebraska as part of a joint hydrologic study by the North Platte Natural Resource District, South Platte Natural Resource District, and U.S. Geological Survey. The objective of the contracted survey, conducted by Fugro Airborne, Ltd., was to improve
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Bruce D. Smith, Jared D. Abraham, James C. Cannia, Patricia Hill
A preliminary, full spectrum, magnetic anomaly grid of the United States with improved long wavelengths for studying continental dynamics: A website for distribution of data
Under an initiative started by Thomas G. Hildenbrand of the U.S. Geological Survey, we have improved the long-wavelength (50-2,500 km) content of the regional magnetic anomaly compilation for the conterminous United States by utilizing a nearly homogeneous set of National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) magnetic surveys flown from 1975 to 1981. The surveys were flown in quadrangles of 2 deg of
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D. Ravat, Carol A. Finn, P. Hill, R. Kucks, J. Phillips, R. Blakely, C. Bouligand, T. Sabaka, A. Elshayat, A. Aref, E. Elawadi
Report from Ground Zero: How geoscientists aid in the aftermath of environmental disasters
People around the world remember when they first learned of the attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. For me, the memories are vivid — my feelings of shock, horror and sadness were similarly etched on the faces of all the attendees of a mining and the environment workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I was speaking. At that time, I had no idea that our small
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Geoffrey S. Plumlee
Deep Resistivity Structure of Mid Valley, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at their Nevada Site Office (NSO) are addressing ground-water contamination resulting from historical underground nuclear testing through the Environmental Management (EM) program and, in particular, the Underground Test Area (UGTA) project.
From 1951 to 1992, 828 underground nuclear tests were conducted
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Erin L. Wallin, Brian D. Rodriguez, Jackie M. Williams
Hydrogeology of the Columbia River Basalt Group in the northern Willamette Valley
No abstract available.
Authors
W Burt, Terrence D. Conlon, T.L. Tolan, R. E. Wells, J Melady
Inversion of multichannel geophysical data with projected kernels
Statistical de‐noising methods such as Principal Component Analysis modify data in a way not constrained by physics. In much the same way as frequency‐filtered data must incorporate altered frequency content into numerical interpretation, so must statistically rotated data include the rotation operator in inversion processes. We propose a method of accounting for statistical reduction of data in n
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M. Andy Kass, Trevor P. Irons, Yaoguo Li
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Buxton 7.5' Quadrangle, Washington County, Oregon
This map, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits of the Buxton 7.5-minute quadrangle. The database delineates map units that are identified by general age and lithology following the stratigraphic nomenclature of the U.S. Geological Survey. The scale of the source maps limits the
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Philip A. Dinterman, Alison R. Duvall
Geologic Map of the Carlton Quadrangle, Yamhill County, Oregon
The Carlton, Oregon, 7.5-minute quadrangle is located in northwestern Oregon, about 35 miles (57 km) southwest of Portland. It encompasses the towns of Yamhill and Carlton in the northwestern Willamette Valley and extends into the eastern flank of the Oregon Coast Range. The Carlton quadrangle is one of several dozen quadrangles being mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Oregon Depa
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Karen L. Wheeler, Ray E. Wells, Joseph M. Minervini, Jessica L. Block
Quantifying the undiscovered geothermal resources of the United States
In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released summary results of an assessment of the electric power production potential from the moderate- and high-temperature geothermal resources of the United States (Williams et al., 2008a; USGS Fact Sheet 2008-3082; http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3082). In the assessment, the estimated mean power production potential from undiscovered geothermal resource
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Colin F. Williams, Marshall J. Reed, Jacob DeAngelo, S. Peter Galanis