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USGS Projects in Afghanistan produced a substantial number of publications, maps, and other documents. 

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Streamflow characteristics at streamgages in northern Afghanistan and selected locations

Statistical summaries of streamflow data for 79 historical streamgages in Northern Afghanistan and other selected historical streamgages are presented in this report. The summaries for each streamgage include (1) station description, (2) graph of the annual mean discharge for the period of record, (3) statistics of monthly and annual mean discharges, (4) monthly and annual flow duration, (5) proba

Authors
Scott A. Olson, Tara Williams-Sether

Glaciers of Asia

This chapter is the ninth to be released in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, a series of 11 chapters. In each of the geographic area chapters, remotely sensed images, primarily from the Landsat 1, 2, and 3 series of spacecraft, are used to analyze the specific glacierized region of our planet under consideration and to monitor glacier

Authors
Richard S. Williams, Jane G. Ferrigno

Streamflow characteristics of streams in southeastern Afghanistan

Statistical summaries of streamflow data for all historical streamgaging stations that have available data in the southeastern Afghanistan provinces of Ghazni, Khost, Logar, Paktya, and Wardak, and a portion of Kabul Province are presented in this report. The summaries for each streamgaging station include a station desciption, table of statistics of monthly and annual mean discharges, table of mo

Authors
Kevin C. Vining
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Streamflow characteristics of streams in the Helmand Basin, Afghanistan

A majority of the Afghan population lacks adequate and safe supplies of water because of contamination, lack of water-resources management regulation, and lack of basic infrastructure, compounded by periods of drought and seasonal flooding. Characteristics of historical streamflows are needed to assist with efforts to quantify the water resources of the Helmand Basin. The Helmand Basin is the l
Authors
Tara Williams-Sether
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Streamflow Characteristics of Streams in the Helmand Basin, Afghanistan

Statistical summaries of streamflow data for all historical streamflow-gaging stations for the Helmand Basin upstream from the Sistan Wetlands are presented in this report. The summaries for each streamflow-gaging station include (1) manuscript (station description), (2) graph of the annual mean discharge for the period of record, (3) statistics of monthly and annual mean discharges, (4) graph of
Authors
Tara Williams-Sether
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Historical and hypothetical future sedimentation and water storage in Kajakai Reservoir, central Afghanistan

Sedimentation has reduced water storage in Kajakai Reservoir. If current sedimentation rates continue, hypothetical future reservoir water volumes at the spillway elevation of 1,033.5 meters could be reduced about 22 percent from 2006 to 2057. Even if the spillway elevation is raised to 1,045 meters, a severe drought could result in large multiyear irrigation-supply deficits in which reservoir wat

Authors
Kevin C. Vining, Aldo V. Vecchia
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Preliminary non-fuel mineral resource assessment of Afghanistan 2007

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cooperated with the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) of the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines to assess the undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources of Afghanistan between 2006 and 2007. This report presents the results of this work and contains chapters describing and assessing the mineral resources of Afghanistan. An accompanying Geographical Information System (G

Authors
Stephen G. Peters, Stephen Ludington, Greta J. Orris, David M. Sutphin, James D. Bliss, James J. Rytuba
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Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Water-balance simulations of runoff and reservoir storage for the Upper Helmand watershed and Kajakai Reservoir, central Afghanistan

A study was performed to provide information on monthly historical and hypothetical future runoff for the Upper Helmand watershed and reservoir storage in Kajakai Reservoir that could be used by Afghanistan authorities to make economic and demographic decisions concerning reservoir design and operation, reservoir sedimentation, and development along the Helmand River. Estimated reservoir volume at

Authors
Kevin C. Vining, Aldo V. Vecchia
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, International Programs, USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Preliminary Earthquake Hazard Map of Afghanistan

Introduction Earthquakes represent a serious threat to the people and institutions of Afghanistan. As part of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) effort to assess the resource potential and seismic hazards of Afghanistan, the Seismic Hazard Mapping group of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has prepared a series of probabilistic seismic hazard maps that help qu
Authors
Oliver S. Boyd, Charles S. Mueller, Kenneth S. Rukstales
By
USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Seismotectonic Map of Afghanistan and Adjacent Areas

Introduction This map is part of an assessment of Afghanistan's geology, natural resources, and natural hazards. One of the natural hazards is from earthquake shaking. One of the tools required to address the shaking hazard is a probabilistic seismic-hazard map, which was made separately. The information on this seismotectonic map has been used in the design and computation of the hazard map.
Authors
Russell L. Wheeler, Kenneth S. Rukstales
By
USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Radiometric Survey in Western Afghanistan: A Website for Distribution of Data

Radiometric (uranium content, thorium content, potassium content, and gamma-ray intensity) and related data were digitized from radiometric and survey route location maps of western Afghanistan published in 1976. The uranium content data were digitized along contour lines from 33 maps in a series entitled 'Map of Uranium (Radium) Contents of Afghanistan (Western Area),' compiled by V. N. Kirsanov
Authors
Ronald E. Sweeney, Robert P. Kucks, Patricia L. Hill, Carol A. Finn
By
USGS Projects in Afghanistan

Landsat ETM+ False-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan

In 2005, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency contracted with the U.S. Geological Survey to perform assessments of the natural resources within Afghanistan. The assessments concentrate on the resources that are related to the economic development of that country. Therefore, assessments were initiated in oil and gas, coal, mineral resources, water
Authors
Philip A. Davis
By
Natural Hazards Mission Area, Astrogeology Science Center, USGS Projects in Afghanistan