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Community sourced mid-Piacenzian sea surface temperature (SST) data This data set collects, from peer-reviewed research, values of sea surface temperature (SST) that occurred at various sites across the Earth during a brief period of the mid-Piacenzian Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Climatology, Indian Ocean, Marine Geology, All tags... Pacific Ocean, Pliocene, Southern Ocean, Stratigraphy, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleogeography, sea surface temperature, 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 Detailed geologic mapping geodatabase for the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia with station point photographs The US Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Park Service, mapped 35 7.5-minute quadrangles, within a 2-mile-wide+ corridor centered on the Parkway, from BLRI (Blue Ridge Parkway) Mile Post (MP) 0 near Afton, Virginia southward to MP 218 at Cumberland Knob, approximately 1.3 km south of the Virginia – North Carolina State Line. Detailed bedrock geologic mapping for this project was conducted at 1:24,000-scale by systematically traversing roads, trails, creeks, and ridges within and adjacent to the 2-mile-wide+ corridor along the 216.9-mile length of the BLRI in Virginia. Geologic data at more than 23,000 station points were collected during this project (September 2009 – February 2014), with approximately... Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Adney Gap, Air Bellows Gap, Alligator Back Formation, Antietam Formation, Ashe Formation, All tags... Ashville, Bald Mountain, Balsam Gap, Beacon Heights, Bear Den, Bear Mountain Gap, Bearwallow Gap, Bedrock, Beech Gap, Beetree Gap, Benge Gap, Big Island, Big Witch Gap, Biltmore Estate, Blackhorse Gap, Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge Music Center Visitor Center, Blue Ridge Park Visitor Center and Park Headquarters, Blue Ridge Parkway, Bluff Mountain, Bottom Creek Metagranitoid Suite, Buck Creek Gap, Buena Vista, Bull Gap, Carbonate, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian Reservation, Chestoa View, Chilhowee Group, Cold Mountain, Conococheague Formation, Crabtree Falls, Crabtree Faults, Craggy Gardens Visitor Center, Craven Gap, Crossnore, Crossnore Plutonic Suite, Cumberland Knob, Daniel Boone's Trace, Deep Gap, Devils Backbone Overlook, Devils Courthouse, Diabase, Doughton Park, E.B. Jeffress Park, Elbrook Formation, Elk Pasture Gap, Ervin, Ervin, Fallingwater Cascades, Fancy Gap, Flat Rock, Folds, Formation, Fox Hunters Paradise, Geology, George Washington National Forest, Gillespie Gap, Glendale Springs, Gneiss, Graggy Dome, Grandfather Mountain, Grandfather Mountain State Park, Granite, Graveyard Fields, Great Valley Overlook, Green Knob, Greenstone Trail, Groundhog Mountain, Hampton Formation, Harpers Formation, Hawksbill Mountain, Hominy Creek, Humpback Mountain, Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, Indian Gap, Irish Gap, James River, James River Visitor Center and Canal, Jefferson National Forest, Julian Price Memorial Park, Jumpinoff Rock, Lake Powhaten, Laurel Springs, Lineville River, Linville, Linville Falls, Linville Falls Visitor Center, Little Switzerland, Looking Glass Rock Overlook, Lynchburg Group, Mabry Hill, Martinsburg Formation, McKinney Gap, Meadows of Dan, Mesoproterozoic gneisses of the Fries Thrust Sheet, Metabasalt, Metagranitoid, Moses H. Cone Memorial Park and Visitor Center, Mount Jefferson State Park, Mount Mitchell, Mount Mitchell State Park, Mount Pisgah, Museum of North Carolina Minerals Visitor Center, N&W Railroad Overlook, Nantahala National Forest, Normal Fault, North Carolina, North Carolina Arboretum, Northwest Trading Post, Oconalufte Visitor Center, Onion Mountain Overlook, Orchard Gap, Oteen, Otter Creek, Overmountain Victory Nation Historic Trail, Peach Bottom Mountain, Peaks of Otter Metagranitoid, Peaks of Otter Visitor Center, Petites Gap, Pilot Gneiss, Pineola, Pipers Gap, Pisgah National Forest, Poor Mountain, Powell Gap, Price Lake, Puckett Cabin, Purgatory Overlook, Rakes Millpond, Ravens Roost, Reverse Fault, Richland Balsam, Roanoke Mountain, Roanoke River, Roanoke River Gorge, Roanoke Valley Overlook, Rocky Knob, Rocky Knob Visitor Center, Sandy Creek Gneiss, Shady Dolomite, Sharp Top, Sherando Lake, Skyland, Southern End, Staunton River, Stone Mountain State Park, Structure, Sugarloaf Mountain, Swannanoa River, Swift Run Formation, Table Rock Mountain, Terrapin Mountain, The Lump, The Saddle, Thrust Fault, Tunnel Gap, Twenty Minute Cliff, Tye River, Tye River Gap, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Unicoi Formation, Virginia, Virginia Explore Park and Visitor Center, Volunteer Gap, Wagon Road Gap, Watauga River, Waterrock Knob Visitor Center, Wayneboro Formation, Waynesboro, Wayneville, Weverton Formation, Whites Gap Overlook, Wigwarm Falls, Woodlaw, Wrights Creek, Yankee Horse Ridge, Z.B. Vance Birthplace, Fewer tags GIS data for predicting the occurrence of cave-inhabiting fauna based on features of the Earth surface environment in the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Region Cave-limited species display patchy and restricted distributions, but are challenging to study in-situ because of the difficulty of sampling. It is often unclear whether the observed distribution is a sampling artifact or a true restriction in range. Further, the drivers of the distribution could be local environmental conditions, such as cave humidity, or they could be associated with surface features that are surrogates for cave conditions. If surface features can be used to predict the distribution of important cave taxa, then conservation management goals can be more easily obtained. These GIS data represent the input and results of a spatial statistical model used to examine the hypothesis that the presence... Types: Citation; Tags: Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Region, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), baseflow, biodiversity, caves, All tags... karst, precipitation, soils, species distribution models, species ranges, subterranean species, temperature, topography, troglobionts, Fewer tags 40Ar/39Ar isotopic data from the Day Nui Con Voi metamorphic massif, Vietnam This data release includes electron 40Ar/39Ar collected at the U.S. Geological Survey for samples from the Day Nui Con Voi metamorphic massif, Vietnam. Rock samples were collected by Meng-Wan Yeh, Michael J. Kunk and Robert P Wintsch in 2011. Mineral separates were prepared and aliquots of amphibole, muscovite, phlogopite, biotite, and potassium feldspar were analyzed by the 40Ar/39Ar method at the U.S. Geological Survey Bascom ARgon Dating (BARD) Laboratory in Reston, Virginia. The 40Ar/39Ar data constrain the timing of exhumation of rocks within the massif. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 40Ar/39Ar, Bascom Argon Dating Laboratory, FBGC, Geochemistry, Geochronology, All tags... Himalaya, Indochina, Structural Geology, Tectonics, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vietnam, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Predictions of floodplain and streambank geomorphic change and flux of sediment and nutrients, and streambed characteristics, for stream reaches in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds Input predictor variables and output predictions from statistical modeling of floodplains, streambanks, and streambeds for each NHDPlusV2 stream reach in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. Random Forest statistical models using either 1) characteristics of upstream drainage area, or 2) characteristics of upstream drainage area (Wieczorek et al. 2018, https://doi.org/10.5066/f7765d7v) and reach geomorphometry (Hopkins et al. 2020, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RQJPT1), were used to explain and predict spatial variation in measured floodplain and streambank flux of sediment, fine sediment, sediment-C, sediment-N, and sediment-P and rates of geomorphic change, and streambed sediment... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecology, Geochemistry, All tags... Geomorphology, Hydrology, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Quality, West Virginia, banks (hydrographic), channels, drainage basins, floodplains, sediment, sediment deposition, sediment erosion, sediment geochemistry, sediment sinks, sediment sources, Fewer tags Data release for depth to bedrock derived from Hydrogeology of Southeastern Connecticut by Melvin (1974) This data release consists of a single ESRI shapefile, Hydrogeo_SECTpts, with geologic information from the previously published Hydrogeology of Southeastern Connecticut (Melvin, 1974). Test boring location points digitized from georeferenced area maps (1:24,000 scale) are attributed with associated well log information: town, identification numbers, altitude, depth to bottom, and remarks regarding the geology of the well finish. Descriptions for the bottoms of boreholes recorded the source driller's logs. Tags: Bozrah, Connecticut, East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, All tags... Ledyard, Lisbon, Montville, North Stonington, Norwich, Old Lyme, Preston, Stonington, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waterford, bedrock surface, borehole logging, lithology, Fewer tags Data release for depth to bedrock from Rhode Island Water Resources Maps This data release, RI_WRpts.gdb, consists of information from Rhode Island Ground-water maps published by the Rhode Island Water Resources Coordinating Board, the Rhode Island Port and Industrial Development Commission, Rhode Island Industrial Commission, and the Rhode Island Development Council; in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey. The point data on these maps have been digitized into a standard ArcGIS geodatabase format. Data about wells and test borings consists of geographic location, identification number, geologic material (bedrock or unconsolidated), altitude in feet of the bedrock surface or altitude of the bottom of well, and data source. Seismic survey locations and bedrock outcrops where they... Tags: ASHAWAY, BRISTOL, CAROLINA, CLAYVILLE, COVENTRY, All tags... CROMPTON, Connecticut, EAST GREENWICH, EAST KILLINGLY, EAST PROVIDENCE, FALL RIVER, GEORGIAVILLE, Geomorphology, HOPE VALLEY, Hydrology, KINGSTON, MYSTIC, Massachusetts, NARRAGANSETT PIER, NEWPORT, NORTH SCITUATE, ONECO, PAWTUCKET, PROVIDENCE, PRUDENCE ISLAND, QUONOCHONTAUG, Rhode Island, SAKONNET POINT, SLOCUM, Stratigraphy, TIVERTON, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), VOLUNTOWN, WATCH HILL, WESTFORD, WICKFORD, WOONSOCKET, Water Resources, bedrock outcrop, bedrock surface, borehole logging, geologic maps, lithology, Fewer tags Monitoring data from the Aleppo rockslide, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, November 2013 - December 2018 Upon reactivation, movement of deep-seated landslides in the Greater Pittsburgh region may persist for long periods of time. Monitoring equipment was located at two sites on a deep-seated rockslide in Aleppo Township, Pennsylvania to establish relationships between precipitation and changes in the state of activity and velocity. Precipitation, snow depth, and air temperature are monitored at a weather station (ARS_WS) located in a relatively flat, open area in the northern part of the rockslide. Displacement and soil moisture are monitored at a second site located in the southern part of a graben (ARS_GR) in the head of the rockslide. At ARS_WS, instrumentation includes a tipping bucket rain gauge, temperature probe,... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Allegheny County, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Soil Sciences, Township of Aleppo, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), kinematics, landslide, Fewer tags Radiocarbon dates, charcoal, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) data from Great Dismal Swamp Sites GDS-519 and GDS-520 Sediment cores were collected in Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in November, 2017 to advance understanding of climate- and land-management driven changes in vegetation, hydrology, and fire regimes. Radiocarbon dates were obtained from samples in two cores (GDS-519-3-21-2017 and GDS-520-3-21-2017) to generate age models for the cores. Bulk sediment samples, charcoal, plant macrofossils, and pollen residue were selected at the USGS in Reston, Virginia and submitted to Beta Analytic, Inc. and the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) laboratories for radiocarbon dating. Those laboratories provided both radiocarbon ages and stable carbon isotope (delta 13C) results, which can be... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climatology, Great Dismal Swamp, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, bulk density, All tags... bulk density, carbon isotope analysis, carbon-14 analysis, charcoal, geochronology, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), Fewer tags Geology of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee The Blue Ridge belt in northwestern North Carolina and northeastern Tennessee is composed chiefly of 1,000-million to 1,100-million-year-old metamorphic and plutonic rocks that have been thrust many miles northwestward across unmetamorphosed Cambrian(?) and Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the Unaka belt. The Blue Ridge thrust sheet is rooted on the southeast along the Brevard zone, a zone of strike-slip faulting along which metamorphic and plutonic rocks of the Inner Piedmont belt are juxtaposed with rocks of the Blue Ridge. Near the southeastern edge of the Blue Ridge belt, the Blue Ridge thrust sheet is breached by erosion, and the rocks beneath are exposed in the Grandfather Mountain window, which is 45 miles long... Tags: Alluvial fan, Alluvium, Amphibolite, Arkose, Ashe, All tags... Avery, Basalt, Beech Granite, Blowing Rock Gneiss, Brown Mountain Granite, Burke, Caldwell, Cambrian, Carter, Chilhowee Group, Cranberry Gneiss, Diabase, Dolomite, Dolostone, Erwin Formation, Gabbro, Gneiss, Grandfather Mountain Formation, Granite, Granodiorite, Gravel, Greenschist, Hampton Formation, Johnson, Limestone, Linville Metadiabase, McDowell, Migmatite, Mineral Resources, Mitchell, Mudstone, Mylonite, North America, North Carolina, Paleozoic, Phyllonite, Proterozoic, Quartz monzonite, Quartzite, Quaternary, Rome Formation, Sandstone, Schist, Shady Dolomite, Shale, Siltstone, Structural Geology, Tennessee, Triassic, Tuff, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ultramafic intrusive rock, Unicoi Formation, United States, Volcanic ash, Watauga, Wilkes, Wilson Creek Gneiss, bedrock geologic units, building stone resources, copper, core analysis, critical minerals, earth sciences, earth structure, field sampling, folding (geologic), foliation (geologic), fracture (geologic), geologic contacts, geologic history, geologic maps, geologic structure, geology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, igneous rocks, iron, lead, lineation (geologic), lithostratigraphy, manganese, metallic mineral resources, metamorphic rocks, metamorphism (geological), microscopy, mineral resources, mineralogy, nonmetallic mineral resources, petrography, petrology, plutonic rocks, sedimentary rocks, stratigraphy, structural geology, titanium, unconsolidated deposits, uranium, volcanic rocks, zinc, Fewer tags PRISM late Pliocene (Piacenzian) alkenone - derived SST data This dataset collects sea surface temperature data generated through alkenone analysis of late Pliocene sediments collected from cores and field localities by USGS PRISM project members. Alkenone analysis of sample material was performed by Timothy Herbert at Brown University. Categories: Data; Tags: Alkenone, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Climatology, Greenland Sea, All tags... Nansemond River, Ocean records, Pacific Ocean, Paleoclimate, Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction, South China sea, Suffolk, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Fewer tags Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the State College 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-Derived Elevation Models at 3-Meter Resolution This imagery dataset consists of 3-meter resolution, lidar-derived imagery of the State College 30 x 60 minute quadrangle in Pennsylvania. The source data used to construct this imagery consists of 1-meter resolution lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs). The lidar source data were compiled from different acquisitions published between 2016 and 2019 and downloaded from the USGS National Map TNM Download. The data were processed using geographic information systems (GIS) software. The data is projected in WGS 1984 Web Mercator. This representation illustrates the terrain as a hillshade with contrast adjusted to highlight local relief according to a topographic position index (TPI) calculation. Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geography, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Mineral Resources, All tags... Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, digital elevation models, elevation, image collections, lidar, topography, Fewer tags Digital Surface Models of the Kajaki Dam in the Helmand Valley, Afghanistan from 1952 Historical Aerial Photos This study applied historical aerial imagery and satellite imagery to create digital surface models (DSMs) of the Helmand River Valley situated in southwestern Afghanistan. The historical imagery, collected in 1952 by Fairchild Aerial Surveys Incorporated (FAS), at 1:40,000 scale, represents the earliest known aerial photographic archive of the Helmand Valley landscape. Structure-from-motion (SfM) multi-view stereo (MVS) photogrammetric techniques were used together with ground control points collected from high resolution satellite imagery to create a 5m digital elevation model (DEM) and 2m orthoimage. The historical DEM was evaluated for accuracy against a 2006 5m DEM using SPOT-5 HRG satellite imagery which was... Tags: Afghanistan, Digital Elevation Model, Helmand Valley, Kajaki Dam, Photogrammetry, All tags... Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Structure from Motion, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags Digital Data for the Geology of the Mineral and Lake Anna West quadrangles, Virginia This Data Release contains 1:24,000-scale geospatially-enabled geological data to accompany the Geology of the Mineral and Lake Anna West quadrangles, Virginia. The map product is a cooperator series publication and, as such, does not have a specific abstract. Geologic mapping for this map product was completed between 2014 and 2017, with most of the field work occurring between January 2016 and May 2017. Numerous foot traverses were completed along creeks and roads throughout the field area; the shore of Lake Anna was accessed by kayak to provide additional data. Distributions of soil units were considered when assigning bedrock type in areas where outcrop was lacking and helped to distinguish fluvial terrace deposits.... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Economic Geology, GeMS, Geologic Map Schema, Lake Anna West, Mineral, All tags... National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, bedrock geologic unit, economic geology, geodatabase, geologic history, geologic map, geologic processes, geology, metamorphism, stratigraphy, structural geology, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags Agricultural area by year between 1988 and 2000 in Kabul, Afghanistan This multi-band raster dataset describes the extent of agricultural activity, including both growing and bare or fallow agricultural fields, surrounding the city of Kabul, Afghanistan for 1988 - 2020. Landsat multispectral images acquired at the height of each year's growing season were used to perform a combined vegetation and clay band ratio analysis. Each band of this raster dataset represents a single year of analysis result; Band 1 indicates agricultural area for 1988, Band 2 indicates that of 1989, and so on. Due to cloud coverage or gaps in the image record, an appropriate image was not available for nine of the years during this 32-year time period; in total 24 Landsat images were used. Band 1 indicates... Tags: Afghanistan, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:602c2520d34eb120311436cf, agriculture, All tags... multispectral imaging, remote sensing, Fewer tags