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Geologic map and digital database of the Bachelor Mountain 7.5' quadrangle, Riverside County, California

Open-File Report 03-102 contains a digital geologic map database of the Bachelor Mountain 7.5’ quadrangle, Riverside County, California that includes: ARC/INFO (Environmental Systems Research Institute, http://www.esri.com) version 7.2.1 coverages of the various elements of the geologic map. A Postscript file to plot the geologic map on a topographic base, and containing a Correlation of Map Unit
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Douglas M. Morton, Michael P. Kennedy, Kelly R. Bovard, Diane Burns

Geologic map and digital database of the Romoland 7.5' quadrangle, Riverside County, California

Open-File Report 03-102 contains a digital geologic map database of the Romoland 7.5’ quadrangle, Riverside County, California that includes: ARC/INFO (Environmental Systems Research Institute, http://www.esri.com) version 7.2.1 coverages of the various elements of the geologic map. A Postscript file to plot the geologic map on a topographic base, and containing a Correlation of Map Units diagram
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Douglas M. Morton, Kelly R. Bovard, Gregory Morton

Principal facts for gravity stations in the Dry Valley area, west-central Nevada and east-central California

In June, 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) established 143 new gravity stations and 12 new rock samples in the Dry Valley area, 30 miles north of Reno, Nevada, on the California - Nevada border (see fig. 1). This study reports on gravity, magnetic, and physical property data intended for use in modeling the geometry and depth of Dry Valley for groundwater analysis. It is part of a larger stu
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Elizabeth A. Sanger, David A. Ponce

Principal facts for 408 gravity stations in the vicinity of the Talkeetna Mountains, south-central Alaska

Gravity data were collected between 1999 and 2002 along transects in the Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska as part of a geological and geophysical study of the framework geology of the region. The study area lies between 61° 30’ and 63° 45’ N. latitude and 145° and 151° W. longitude. This data set includes 408 gravity stations. These data, combined with the pre-existing 3,286 stations, b
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Robert L. Morin, Jonathan M. G. Glen

Geochemistry of Permian rocks from the margins of the Phosphoria Basin: Lakeridge core, western Wyoming

The Permian Phosphoria Formation and interbedded units of the Park City Formation and Shedhorn Sandstone in western Wyoming represent deposition along a carbonate ramp at the eastern margin of the Phosphoria Basin, with portions of the Phosphoria units reflecting periods of upwelling and widespread phosphogenesis. Thickness-weighted slab-samples of these units were collected at a maximum interval
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Robert B. Perkins, Brandie McIntyre, James R. Hein, David Z. Piper

Preliminary soil-slip susceptibility maps, southwestern California

This group of maps shows relative susceptibility of hill slopes to the initiation sites of rainfall-triggered soil slip-debris flows in southwestern California. As such, the maps offer a partial answer to one part of the three parts necessary to predict the soil-slip/debris-flow process. A complete prediction of the process would include assessments of “where”, “when”, and “how big”. These maps em
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Douglas M. Morton, Rachel M. Alvarez, Russell H. Campbell, Kelly R. Bovard, D. T. Brown, K. M. Corriea, J. N. Lesser

Correlation of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada

This report graphically portrays the broadly parallel tectonic development of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada from early Paleozoic to Early Cretaceous time. It is dedicated to J.S. Diller of the U.S. Geological Survey who, during his pioneer field studies a century ago, recognized significant similarities between these two important provinces. The report is based mainly on the numerous pub
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William P. Irwin

Petroleum system and production characteristics of the Muddy (J) Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous) Wattenberg continuous gas field, Denver basin, Colorado

Wattenberg field is a continuous-type gas accumulation. Estimated ultimate recovery from current wells is 1.27 tcf of gas from the Lower Cretaceous Muddy (J) Sandstone. Mean gas resources that have the potential to be added to these reserves in the next 30 yr are 1.09 tcf; this will be primarily through infill drilling to recover a greater percentage of gas in place and to drain areas that are iso
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Debra K. Higley, Dave O. Cox, Robert J. Weimer

Impact damage to dinocysts from the Late Eocene Chesapeake Bay event

The Chesapeake Bay impact structure, formed by a comet or meteorite that struck the Virginia continental shelf about 35.5 million years ago, is the focus of an extensive coring project by the U.S. Geological Survey and its cooperators. Organic-walled dinocysts recovered from impact-generated deposits in a deep core inside the 85-90 km-wide crater include welded organic clumps and fused, partially
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Lucy E. Edwards, David S. Powars

Geologic map and digital database of the Yucaipa 7.5’ quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California

IntroductionThis geologic database of the Yucaipa 7.5' quadrangle was prepared by the Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP), a regional geologic-mapping project sponsored jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey. The database was developed as a contribution to the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program's National Geologic Map Database, and is in
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Jonathan C. Matti, D. M. Morton, B. F. Cox, S. E. Carson, T. J. Yetter, P. M. Cossette, M. C. Wright, S. A. Kennedy, M. L. Dawson, R. M. Hauser