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Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Sverdrup Basin Province, Arctic Canada, 2008
The Sverdrup Basin Province, an area of 515,000 square kilometers on the northern margin of North America, extends 1,300 kilometers across the Canadian Arctic Islands from near the Mackenzie Delta to northern Ellesmere Island. It consists of an intracratonic late Paleozoic to early Cenozoic rift-sag basin and a Mesozoic rift shoulder that bounds it on the north.Basin inception was Mississippian, m
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Marilyn E. Tennyson, Janet K. Pitman
Geology and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Franklinian Shelf Province, Arctic Canada and North Greenland, 2008
In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Franklinian Shelf Province of northern Canada and Greenland as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal Program. The Franklinian Shelf Province lies along the northernmost edge of the North American craton in Greenland and Canada. It encompasses a Cambrian through Mid
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Marilyn E. Tennyson, Janet K. Pitman
Quantifying 40 years of rockfall activity in Yosemite Valley with historical Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning
Rockfalls and rockslides are often dominant geomorphic processes in steep bedrock landscapes, but documenting their occurrence can be challenging, requiring frequent monitoring and well resolved spatial data. Repeat application of remote sensing methods such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry can detect even very small rockfalls, but typically these
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Antoine Guerin, Greg M. Stock, Mariah J. Radue, Michel Jaboyedoff, Brian D. Collins, Battista Matasci, Nikita Avdievitch, Marc-Henri Derron
Global physical controls on estuarine habitat distribution during sea levelchange: Consequences for genetic diversification through time
Determining the extrinsic (physical) factors controlling speciation and diversification of species through time is
of key interest in paleontology and evolutionary biology. The role of sea-level change in shaping species richness
patterns of marginal marine species has received much attention, but with variable conclusions. Recent work
combining genetic data and Geographical Information Systems (G
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Greer A. Dolby, Arturo M. Bedolla, S. Bennett, David K. Jacobs
Northward migration of the Oregon forearc on the Gales Creek fault
The Gales Creek fault (GCF) is a 60-km-long, northwest-striking dextral fault system (west of Portland, Oregon) that accommodates northward motion and uplift of the Oregon Coast Range. New geologic mapping and geophysical models confirm inferred offsets from earlier geophysical surveys and document ∼12 km of right-lateral offset of a basement high in Eocene Siletz River Volcanics since ca. 35 Ma a
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Ray Wells, Richard J. Blakely, Sean Bemis
Bioaccumulation and toxicity of cadmium, copper, nickel, and zinc and their mixtures to aquatic insect communities
We describe 2 artificial stream experiments that exposed aquatic insect communities to zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), and cadmium (year 2014) and to Zn, Cu, and nickel (year 2015). The testing strategy was to concurrently expose insect communities to single metals and mixtures. Single-metal tests were repeated to evaluate the reproducibility of the methods and year-to-year variability. Metals were strong
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Christopher A. Mebane, Travis S. Schmidt, Janet L. Miller, Laurie S. Balistrieri
Zircon-hosted melt inclusion record of silicic magmatism in the Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains terrane, Missouri: Origin of the Pea Ridge iron oxide-apatite rare earth element deposit and implications for regional crustal pathways of mineralizatio
Voluminous silicic magmatism was coeval with iron ore mineralization in the St.
Francois Mountains terrane in southeast Missouri, part of the broader Mesoproterozoic
Granite-Rhyolite province along the eastern margin of Laurentia. Some of the iron
deposits contain extraordinary endowments of critical elements, such as the Pea Ridge
iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit, which has an average grade of ~1
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Kathryn E. Watts, Celestine N. Mercer
Focus areas for data acquisition for potential domestic resources of 11 critical minerals in the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico—Aluminum, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, platinum-group elements, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin,
In response to a need for information on potential domestic sources of critical minerals, the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) was established to identify and prioritize areas for acquisition of new geologic mapping, geophysical data, and elevation data to improve our knowledge of the geologic framework of the United States. Phase 1 of Earth MRI concentrated on those geologic terrane
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Jane M. Hammarstrom, Connie L. Dicken, Warren C. Day, Albert H. Hofstra, Benjamin J. Drenth, Anjana K. Shah, Anne E. McCafferty, Laurel G. Woodruff, Nora K. Foley, David A. Ponce, Thomas P. Frost, Lisa L. Stillings
Geothermal play fairway analysis of the Sou Hills, northern Nevada: A major quaternary accommodation zone in the Great Basin region
To facilitate discovery and development of blind geothermal systems in the Great Basin region, as well as assessment of known systems with surface hot springs, a play fairway approach was developed to evaluate and integrate multiple geologic and geophysical parameters for permeability and heat. Phase 1 of the project produced a geothermal potential map of 96,000 km2 of Nevada. This analysis yielde
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James E. Faulds, Andrew J. Sadowski, Mark F. Coolbaugh, Drew L. Siler
Precious and base metal mineralization within the lower stratigraphy of the Stillwater Complex: New targets defined and old targets revisited
Group Ten Metals is exploring for base and precious metals within the Stillwater
Complex, a 2.7 Ga layered mafic/ultramafic intrusion, host to the world-class Sibanye
platinum group element (PGE) mines. Group Ten controls approximately 25 kilometers
of strike length of prospective mafic and ultramafic rocks in the western portion
of the Complex. The property includes multiple target types and indi
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Craig Bow, Mike Ostenson, Justin Modroo, Allen K. Andersen
Attribute rules and dictionary symbology in ArcGIS Pro help streamline geologic map compilation in GeMS
Attribute rules and dictionary symbology are functionality available in ArcGIS Pro that can dramatically streamline the compilation of geologic maps in GeMS - the Geologic Map Schema that is the standard delivery schema mandated for projects funded by the Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. Testing of the functionality produced attribute rules and a symbol dictionary that support two compilation
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Tracey J. Felger
Soil microbial communities and global change
Soils and soil microbial communities mediate the biogeochemical processes that underly ecosystem-level changes. This chapter examines why soils and soil microbial communities are important for understanding impacts and feedbacks to global change. It discusses the technological approaches and challenges that are at the frontiers of this research area. Global change impacts on microbial communities
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Mark P. Waldrop, Courtney Creamer