Pete G Chirico

Datasheets associated with borehole sampling of surficial sediments in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Highways Administration Turner-Fairbanks Research Center In Situ Scour Testing Device

This spreadsheet contains the results of open-bore auger samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Maryland and Virginia for the Federal Highways Administration Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center. 19 sites were selected in 14 different locations across northern Virginia and southern Maryland by FBGC scientists to drill boreholes for the development of the TFHRC’s In-situ Scour Testing Device (ISTD) and to investigate the sedimentological properties of different layers of the near-surface soil column. Each worksheet in this excel workbook contains the detailed log information for one site, including its name, gps coordinates, surface elevation, borehole depth, information about the drilling rig used...

Categories: Data; Tags: Geography, Geomorphology, Information Sciences, Maryland, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virginia, augering, biota, surficial geologic units, Fewer tags

Point locations of brick kilns in Kabul, Afghanistan, derived from 1965, 2004, 2011, and 2018 satellite imagery

This dataset was created as part of the USGS Afghanistan Project investigating artisanal and small-scale mining activity. Clay mining for brick making purposes represents a small but important segment of the mineral extraction industry in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over the past several decades Kabul has grown from a relatively small city, with a 1970 population of less than 500,000 people, to a sprawling urban center with approximately 4.2 million people in 2020 (CIA 2020). Population growth has expanded the need for housing, commercial, and industrial buildings, and associated infrastructure. This has greatly increased demand for bricks, the primary construction material of the region. In this study, very high-resolution...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Afghanistan, Geography, Loess, Mineral Resources, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, clay deposits, mining and quarrying, Fewer tags

Database for the Surficial Geologic Map of the Charleston Region, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, and Georgetown Counties, South Carolina

This database portrays the surface and shallow subsurface geology of the greater Charleston, S.C. region east of 80°30′ west and south of 33°15′ north. The region covers the entirety of Charleston County and portions of Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, and Georgetown Counties. Units locally exposed at the surface range in age from middle Eocene to Holocene, but most of the area is covered by Quaternary interglacial deposits. These are, from oldest to youngest, the Okefenokee, Waccamaw(?), Penholoway, Ladson, Ten Mile Hill, and Wando Formations and the Silver Bluff beds. Two cross sections (not included in the database), one running southeast from Harleyville to the coastline on James Island and the other running...

Tags: Adam Run fault, Ashepoo River, Ashley Formation, Ashley River, Ashley River fault, All tags... Atlantic Ocean, Awendaw, Back River, Berkeley County, Bethera, Bull Harbor, Captain Sams Inlet, Cenozoic, Chandler Bridge Formation, Charleston, Charleston County, Charleston Harbor, Charleston fault, Clark Sound, College Park, Colleton County, Cooper River, Coosaw River, Copahee Sound, Cordesville, Cottageville, Daniel Island beds (informal), Dawho River, Dorchester, Dorchester County, East Branch Cooper River, Economic Geology, Edisto Beach, Edisto Formation, Edisto Island, Edisto River, Eocene, Esterville Minim Creek Canal, Folly Beach, Folly River, Fort Moultrie, Fort Sumter, Fort Wagner, Four Hole Swamp, Francis Marion National Forest, Geomorphology, Givhans, Goose Creek Limestone, Goose Creek Reservoir, Hamlin Sound, Harleyville, Harleyville Formation, Hollywood, Holocene, Huger, Huttos Lake, Intracoastal Waterway, Island of Palms, Jacksonboro, Jedburg, Johns Island, Kiawah River, Ladson, Ladson Formation, Lake Francis, Lake Merkel, Lake Moultrie, Lincolnville, Marine Geology, Marks Head Formation, Meggett, Miocene, Moncks Corner, Neogene, North Charleston, North Edisto River, North Santee, North Santee River, Okefenokee Formation, Oligocene, Open-File Report, Paleogene, Parachucla Formation, Parkers Ferry Formation, Penholoway Formation, Phanerozoic, Pinopolis, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, Ravenel, Raysor Formation, Ridgeville, Saint Helena Sound, Santee Limestone, Seabrook Island, Sedimentology, Shulerville, Silver Bluff beds, South Edisto River, South Santee River, Stono Inlet, Stono River, Stratigraphy, Summerville, Summerville fault, Tail Race Canal, Ten Mile Hill Formation, Tertiary, Tibwin, Toogoodoo Creek, Tupelo Bay Formation Cross Member, Tupelo Bay Formation Pregnall Member, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waccamaw(?) Formation, Wadmalaw, Wadmalaw River, Wando, Wando Formation, West Branch Cooper River, Whiteville, Woodstock fault, alluvial terrace, alluvium, beach sand, bedrock geologic units, biostratigraphy, carbonate rock, cartography, clay deposits, clay or mud, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, colluvium, earth sciences, earthquakes, economic geology, environment, fault zones, faults, flood plain, geography, geologic contacts, geologic history, geologic maps, geologic processes, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gravel, gravel deposits, human impacts, lake or marine sediment, limestone, lithostratigraphy, maps and atlases, marine geology, mud flat, natural rock formations, nonmetallic mineral resources, peat, rocks and deposits, sand, sand deposits, sedimentary rocks, sedimentation, sedimentology, silt, stratigraphy, structural geology, structure contours, study areas, surficial geologic units, terrace, time periods, unconformities, unconsolidated deposits, unconsolidated material, Fewer tags

Data associated with the investigation of suitable habitat for the endangered plant Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum Rose) in the Potomac River near Hancock Maryland

In lieu of a uniform mapping of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park corridor at very high-resolution using UAS, this study developed a multi-scale workflow, where (1) geospatial modeling methods and (2) historic image analysis were used to constrain the areal extent of (3) detailed field and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) observation. Geospatial Modeling Methods: Harperella habitat characteristics reported by literature sources and corroborated by extremely limited harperella occurrence data (in the form of GPS locations), were compiled into a geospatial prediction model (GPM) to characterize the extent of harperella habitat for the region between Sideling Hill Wildlife Management Area and Harper’s...

Tags: Ecology, Geography, Potomac, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, endangered species, geography, land surface characteristics, Fewer tags

A database of artisanal, small-scale, and large-scale mining in the Copperbelt region of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia

Cobalt, designated a critical mineral by the European Union and the United States, is a crucial component of the lithium-ion batteries found in cell phones, electric vehicles, and personal computing devices. Over half of the world’s cobalt supply is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where cobalt is mined in both large-scale and artisanal or small-scale operations. This dataset focuses on Africa’s mineral-rich Copperbelt region, an area mined for both copper and cobalt, that extends south across the DRC boundary into neighboring Zambia. Existing geoscientific data and remote sensing analysis were investigated to build a comprehensive dataset describing cobalt mining extent and technique (large-...

Tags: Mineral Resources, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), critical minerals, geospatial datasets