Selected Whole-Rock and Sediment Geochemistry Reanalysis Data Additions to the Alaska Geochemical DataBase (AGDB) from Archived Samples, Alaska

This data release contains elemental concentration data from the reanalysis of 13,930 archived stream-sediment sample and associated stream sediment reference material and 968 archived rock samples and associated rock reference material. All archived material was from samples that were collected in Alaska. Samples were retrieved from the USGS Mineral Program's sample archive in Denver, CO. Sample processing consisted of splitting the appropriate aliquot for the requested analyses. Sample splitting was performed in the USGS Mineral Program's sample prep facilities. 13,800 samples were analyzed using a multi-element analytical method involving decomposition of the sample by sodium peroxide and elemental analysis by...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Alaska Range, Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Range, Alexander Archipelago, All tags... Bering Sea, Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, Geochemistry, Gulf of Alaska, Kuskokwim Mountains, Mineral Resources, Seward Peninsula, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wrangell Mountains, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, calcium, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, earth science, earth sciences, erbium, europium, ferric iron, ferrous iron, gadolinium, gallium, geochemistry, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, indium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, mineralogy, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rubidium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Impacts of Climate Change and Melting Glaciers on Coastal Ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska

As glaciers melt from climate change, their contents – namely, large quantities of freshwater, sediment, and nutrients – are slowly released into coastal ecosystems. This project addressed the impacts of melting glaciers on coastal ecosystems in the Copper River region of the Gulf of Alaska, which is home to several commercially important fisheries. Researchers examined how glacial melting is altering the amount and timing of freshwater that enters the Gulf of Alaska from the Copper River. They also investigated the source and amount of two nutrients, iron and nitrate, dissolved in the water. As a complementary piece of the study, researchers tested the relationship between nutrient levels, plankton populations,...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2009, CASC, Completed, Glaciers and Permafrost, Glaciers and Permafrost, All tags... Gulf of Alaska, Iron, National CASC, National CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, climate change, melting glaciers, Fewer tags

The major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of mineral scales from The Geysers geothermal field, California, USA

This data release provides quantitative whole rock geochemical results from The Geysers vapor-dominated geothermal field in California. The concentrations of major elements are reported in oxide weight percent by wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), the concentrations for sixty elements are reported in elemental weight percent (pct) or parts per million (ppm) from inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry-mass spectrometry ICP-OES-MS analysis, mercury is reported in ppm by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS), and ammonium in ppm from automated colorimetry analysis. The analyses show significant enrichment of volatile elements and elements such as sulfur, boron, arsenic,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Lake County, All tags... MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Sonoma County, The Geysers, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, ammonium, arsenic, boron, chemical analysis, cobalt, cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS), copper, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, geothermal field, iron, lead, mercury, mineral resources, mineral scales, mineralogy, nickel, sulfur, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), zinc, Fewer tags