Engineering-geologic map of the Alaska Highway corridor, Tetlin Junction to Canada border, Alaska

During 2009, the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys continued a program, begun in 2006, of reconnaissance mapping of surficial geology in the proposed natural-gas pipeline corridor through the upper Tanana River valley. The study area is a 12-mi-wide (19.3-km-wide) area that straddles the Alaska Highway from the western boundaries of the Tanacross B-3 and A-3 quadrangles near Tetlin Junction eastward to the eastern boundaries of the Nabesna D-1 and C-1 quadrangles along the Canada border. Mapping during 2008-2009 in the Tanacross and Nabesna quadrangles linked with the mapping completed in the Tanacross, Big Delta and Mt. Hayes quadrangles in 2006-2008. Surficial geology was initially mapped in...

Tags: Aeolian, Alaska Highway Corridor, Alaska Pipeline, Alaska, State of, Beaver Creek, All tags... Canada, Chisana River, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Eolian, Gasline, Geologic Hazards, Geologic Map, Geology, Hazards, Landslide, Landslide Deposit, Loess, Midway Lake, Nabesna, Nabesna Quadrangle, Nabesna River, Natural Gas, Northway, Northway Junction, Periglacial Slope Failure, Permafrost, Pipeline, Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline, Retransported Loess, Scottie Creek, Tanacross Quadrangle, Tanana Basin, Tanana River, Taylor Highway, Tetlin, Tetlin Junction, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Thawing Permafrost, Translational Landslide, Transportation Corridor, Unconsolidated Deposits, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Food, Fuel, and Materials Metrics for Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Food, Fuel, and Materials category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that provide or support the production of food, fuel, or other materials, the need or demand for these items, the impacts associated with their presence and accessibility, and factors that place stress on the natural environment's capability to provide these benefits. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Survey of geology, geologic materials, and geologic hazards in proposed access corridors in selected quadrangles, Alaska

As part of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) effort to make final recommendations of federal land parcels to be considered for selection by the State of Alaska according to provisions of the Statehood Act, a decision was made to identify and evaluate potential access corridors. Corridor maps were compiled for a total of 78 quadrangles throughout Alaska. This map suite shows relevant geologic information at a scale of 1:250,000 for 10-mile-wide corridors straddling centerlines for proposed access routes throughout Alaska. The maps are based on geologic data compiled from existing, published mapping. Each compiled corridor geology map was used to derive maps of potential construction materials, data quality,...

Tags: Alaska, State Of, Ambler River Quadrangle, Anchorage Quadrangle, Aufeis, Avalanche, All tags... Baird Mountains Quadrangle, Barrow Quadrangle, Barter Island Quadrangle, Beechey Point Quadrangle, Bendeleben Quadrangle, Bering Glacier Quadrangle, Bethel Quadrangle, Bettles Quadrangle, Black River Quadrangle, Bradfield Canal Quadrangle, Candle Quadrangle, Chandalar Quadrangle, Chandler Lake Quadrangle, Charley River Quadrangle, Chignik Quadrangle, Circle Quadrangle, Cold Bay Quadrangle, Construction Materials, Cordova Quadrangle, De Long Mountains Quadrangle, Demarcation Point Quadrangle, Dillingham Quadrangle, Eagle Quadrangle, Engineering, Fairbanks Quadrangle, Flaxman Island Quadrangle, Geologic Materials, Geology, Glacier Outburst Flood, Harrison Bay Quadrangle, Hazards, Healy Quadrangle, Holy Cross Quadrangle, Howard Pass Quadrangle, Hughes Quadrangle, Icing, Iditarod Quadrangle, Ikpikpuk River Quadrangle, Iliamna Quadrangle, Jokulhlaup, Juneau Quadrangle, Kantishna River Quadrangle, Karluk Quadrangle, Kateel River Quadrangle, Killik River Quadrangle, Lake Clark Quadrangle, Lime Hills Quadrangle, Livengood Quadrangle, Lookout Ridge Quadrangle, McGrath Quadrangle, Meade River Quadrangle, Medfra Quadrangle, Melozitna Quadrangle, Misheguk Mountain Quadrangle, Mount Katmai Quadrangle, Mount McKinley Quadrangle, Mount Michelson Quadrangle, Naknek Quadrangle, Naled, Noatak Quadrangle, Norton Bay Quadrangle, Nulato Quadrangle, Ophir Quadrangle, Permafrost, Petersburg Quadrangle, Philip Smith Mountains Quadrangle, Port Moller Quadrangle, Railroad, Ruby Quadrangle, Russian Mission Quadrangle, Sagavanirktok Quadrangle, Selawik Quadrangle, Shungnak Quadrangle, Sleetmute Quadrangle, Solomon Quadrangle, Survey Pass Quadrangle, Taku River Quadrangle, Talkeetna Quadrangle, Tanana Quadrangle, Taylor Mountains Quadrangle, Teshekpuk Quadrangle, Transportation Corridor, Tyonek Quadrangle, Ugashik Quadrangle, Umiat Quadrangle, Unalakleet Quadrangle, Utukok River Quadrangle, Wiseman Quadrangle, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Tsunami inundation maps of Fox Islands communities, including Dutch Harbor and Akutan, Alaska

Potential tsunami hazards for the Fox Islands communities of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor and Akutan were evaluated by numerically modeling the extent of inundation from tsunami waves generated by hypothetical earthquake sources and taking into account historical observations. Worst-case hypothetical scenarios are defined by analyzing results of a sensitivity study of the tsunami dynamics related to various slip distributions along the Aleutian megathrust. The worst-case scenarios for Unalaska and Akutan are thought to be thrust earthquakes in the Fox Islands region with magnitudes ranging from Mw 8.8 to Mw 9.1 that have their greatest slip at 30-40 km (18-25 mi) depth. We also consider Tohoku-type ruptures and an outer-rise...

Tags: Active Fault, Akutan, Coastal, Earthquake, Earthquake Related Slope Failure, All tags... Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Fault Displacement, Faulting, Flood, Fox Islands, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Inundation, Land Subsidence, Landslide, Modeling, Raster Image, Seismic Gap, Seismic Hazards, Slides, Slope, Slope Instability, Tides, Topography, Tsunami, Unalaska, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Tsunami inundation maps for the city of Sand Point, Alaska

Staff from Alaska Earthquake Center, Geophysical Institute and Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys evaluated potential tsunami hazards for the city of Sand Point, on Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands archipelago. We numerically modeled the extent of inundation from tsunami waves generated by local and distant earthquake sources. We considered the results in light of historical observations. The worst-case scenarios are defined by analyzing results of the sensitivity study of the tsunami dynamics with respect to different slip distributions along the Aleutian megathrust. For the Sand Point area, the worst-case scenarios are thought to be thrust earthquakes in the Shumagin Islands region with magnitudes...

Tags: Active Fault, Alaska Earthquake 1964, Aleutian Islands, Bathymetry, Coastal, All tags... Coastal and River, Earthquake, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Fault Displacement, Faulting, Faults, Flood, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Humboldt Harbor, Inundation, Land Subsidence, Modeling, Popof Island, Raster Image, Sand Point, Seismic Gap, Seismic Hazards, Seismology, Shumagin Islands, Surface, Topography, Tsunami, Water, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

USGS National Index of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise

The goal of this project is to quantify, at the National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea- level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables coastal geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tidal range, wave height, historical rates of relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables furnishes a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise. Data downloads available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds68/

Tags: cmgp, coastal and marine geology program, coastal hazards, erosion, hazards, All tags... oceans, oceans and coastal, oceans and estuaries, shoreline, shoreline change, u.s. geological survey, united states, usgs, whcmsc, woods hole coastal and marine science center, Fewer tags

Historically active volcanoes of Alaska

This data lists the historically active volcanoes of Alaska and the year of the last major eruptive event. The volcanoes listed meet at least one of the following criteria since 1700 CE: (1) documented, unquestioned eruption, or (2) a strongly suspected eruption, often an eruption documented in the historical account with very little information (current geologic knowledge must not contradict the eruption account), or (3) persistent (usually on the order of decades, but certainly longer than several months) fumaroles, with temperatures (where measured) within ~10 degrees C of the boiling point, or (4) significant, measured, volcanic-related, non-eruptive deformation, (5) documented earthquake swarm with strongly...

Tags: Active Volcanoes, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska Statewide Maps, Alaska, State of, Aleutian Arc, All tags... Aleutian Islands, Coastal and River, Coastal and River Hazards, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Historic Eruption, Volcanic, Volcanic Eruption, Volcano Hazards, Volcanoes, Volcanology, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Quaternary faults and folds in Alaska: A digital database

This dataset contains information and locations on faults and associated folds in Alaska that are believed to be sources of M>6 earthquakes during the Quaternary (the past 1,600,000 years). The dataset is intended to part of the USGS archive for historic and ancient earthquake sources used in current and future probabilistic seismic-hazard analyses. This dataset presents a single source that summarizes important information on paleoseismic (ancient earthquakes) parameters including, age of most recent deformation, slip rate, slip sense dip direction, and accuracy of original mapping. These data are compiled from hundreds of journal articles, maps, theses, and other documents, as referenced herein. The geospatial...

Tags: Active Fault, Alaska, State of, Earthquake, Faulting, Faults, All tags... Folds, Hazards, Paleoseismology, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

High-resolution lidar data for infrastructure corridors, Valdez Quadrangle, Alaska

In advance of design, permitting, and construction of a pipeline to deliver North Slope natural gas to out-of-state customers and Alaska communities, the Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) has acquired LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data along proposed pipeline routes, nearby areas of infrastructure, and regions where significant geologic hazards have been identified. LiDAR data will serve multiple purposes, but have primarily been collected to (1) evaluate active faulting, slope instability, thaw settlement, erosion, and other engineering constraints along proposed pipeline routes, and (2) provide a base layer for the state-federal GIS database that will be used to evaluate permit applications...

Tags: Aerial Geology, Alaska, State of, Digital Elevation Model, Digital Surface Model (DSM), Geologic Hazards, All tags... Geology, Geomorphology, Hazards, LiDAR, LiDAR LAS File Format, Point Cloud Data, Remote Sensing, Slope Instability, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Valdez Quadrangle, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Environmental geology in Thailand - programs and strategies

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Coastal zone management, Earthquakes, Environment management, Environmental protection, Flooding, All tags... Geology, Government programs, Governments, Hazards, Land use, Landslides, Regional planning, Research programmes, Resource management, Runoff, SW 0835 Streamflow and runoff; P 9000 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION; , Seismic activity, Seismology, Streamflow, Thailand, Thailand, Water Resources Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aqua, Fewer tags

Decision-making processes in ecological risk assessment using copper pollution of Macquarie Harbour from Mt. Lyell, Tasmania, as a case study

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; Ecology A, Assessments, Australia, Tasmania, Australia, Tasmania, Macquarie Harbor, Australia, Tasmania, Macquarie Harbour, All tags... Copper, Decision Making, Drainage water, Ecological Effects, Ecosystem analysis, Ecosystem disturbance, Environmental impact, Environmental monitoring, Environmental protection, Harbors, Hazard assessment, Hazards, Heavy metals, Mine Wastes, Mine tailings, PSE, Australia, Tasmania, Macquarie Harbour, Pollution control, Pollution levels, Probabilistic Process, Q5 01502 Methods and instruments; D 04692 Environmental perc, Risk, Risk assessment, Risks, Sublethal effects, Tasmania, Mt. Lyell, Toxicants, Toxicity testing, Water pollution, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Environmental hazard of selenium in the Animas La Plata water development project

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; Water Res, Agricultural practices, Agricultural runoff, Aquatic environment, Biota, All tags... Environmental impact, Freshwater pollution, Hazards, Irrigation Water, Monitoring, Poisoning, Pollution, Pollution effects, Q5 01504 Effects on organisms; SW 3030 Effects of pollution;, Reservoirs, Risk assessment, Rivers, Selenium, Surface Water, Toxicity, USA, Colorado, USA, Colorado, USA, Colorado, Animas R., USA, New Mexico, USA, New Mexico, Water Pollution, Water Resources Development, Water supplies, Fewer tags

Hazard evaluation of inorganics, singly and in mixtures, to flannelmouth sucker Catostomus latipinnis in the San Juan River, New Mexico

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; ASFA 1: B, Catostomus latipinnis, Catostomus latipinnis, Copper, Environmental effects, All tags... Evaluation, Fish physiology, Flannelmouth sucker, Freshwater pollution, Hazards, Heavy metals, Inorganic compounds, Larval Growth Stage, Physiology, Pollutants, Pollution effects, Population Exposure, Q5 01504 Effects on organisms; Q1 01346 Physiology, biochemi, Sucker, Toxicity, Toxicity tests, USA, New Mexico, USA, New Mexico, San Juan R., USA, New Mexico, San Juan R., Vanadium, Water Pollution Effects, Water pollution, Zinc, mixtures, Fewer tags

Harmful algae, marine blooms, and simple population models

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 3: Aqua, Algae, Algal blooms, Aquaculture, Aquaculture effluents, All tags... Black Sea, Dinoflagellates, Environmental factors, Environmental impact, Eutrophication, Hazards, Marine pollution, North Sea, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Population dynamics, Q1 01461 Plankton; Q5 01524 Public health, medicines, danger, Red tides, Toxins, Fewer tags

Relative risk site evaluation for buildings 7740 and 7741 Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; Pollution, Air pollution, Asbestos, Atmospheric gases, Construction, All tags... Hazards, Heavy metals, Land pollution, Lead, Metals, Military, Military operations, Oxygen, Pesticides, Pollution surveys, Q5 01503 Characteristics, behavior and fate; P 5000 LAND POL, Radioisotopes, Radon, Risk assessment, Risks, Sediment pollution, USA, Kentucky, Fort Campbell, USA, Kentucky, Fort Campbell, Volatile compounds, Water pollution, Fewer tags

Wave Height Data for the Gulf of Mexico

The goal of this project is to provide a preliminary overview, at a National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea- level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Beach, Beach Erosion, Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Hazards, All tags... Coastal processes, Erosion, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Hazards, Louisiana, Misissippi, Sea-Level, Sea-Level Rise, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Slope, Texas, Tide Range, Wave Height, inundation, sea level rise, sea level trends, tides, waves, wind, Fewer tags

Bruce Mine Division Plan in Case of Fire or Explosion

ADMMR map collection: Bruce Mine Division Plan in Case of Fire or Explosion; 21 x 30 in.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1970s, Arizona, Bagdad area physiographic area, Bruce, Copper, Sulfide, All tags... Dataset, Gold, Lawler Mines, Old Dick, Old Dick metallic mineral dist., Silver, United States, Yavapai County, Zinc, Sulfide, geoscientificInformation, hazards, maps and atlases, mine buildings, mineral resources, mining and quarrying, mining hazards, plans, subsurface maps, Fewer tags

ADMMR mining collection file: More Sand

This location is part of the Arizona Mineral Industry Location System (AzMILS), an inventory of mineral occurences, prospects and mine locations in Arizona. Coconino362 is located in T23N R7E Sec 24 S2 in the Sunset Crater West - 7.5 Min quad. This collection consists of various reports, maps, records and related materials acquired by the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources regarding mining properties in Arizona. Information was obtained by various means, including the property owners, exploration companies, consultants, verbal interviews, field visits, newspapers and publications. Some sections may be redacted for copyright. Please see the access statement.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Abrasive, Pumice, All tags... Arizona, Coconino, Crown Claims, Dataset, Flagstaff physiographic area, Moon Sand, Pumice, Lt Wt Aggreg, San Francisco Volcanic Field, Sugarloaf Mtn. Area Pumice, Sunset Crater West - 7.5 Min, T23N R7E Sec 24 S2, United States, chemical analysis, geoscientificInformation, gravel deposits, hazards, image collections, mining and quarrying, mining hazards, natural resource assessment, natural resource management, natural resources, news releases, reports, rocks and deposits, topographic maps, Fewer tags

When and how industrial biotechnologies become a factor of concern in regional safety management

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Accident prevention, Accidents, Bioengineering Abstracts, Biological hazards, Biological safety management, All tags... Biology, Bioprocesses, Biotechnology, Gene technology, Genetic engineering, Hazardous organisms, Hazards, Health risks, Industrial applications, Management, Regional safety management, W4 914.1 Accidents and Accident Prevention; W4 461.8 Biotech, Fewer tags

Protocol for aquatic hazard assessment of selenium

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aves, P 1000 MARINE POLLUTION; R2 23050 Environment; R2 23040 Biol, Pisces, Pollution Abstracts; Risk Abstracts; Water Resources Abstrac, aquatic environment, All tags... bioaccumulation, biota, bird eggs, birds, eggs, fish, fish eggs, food chains, hazards, pollution effects, reproduction, sediments, selenium, water pollution, wildlife, Fewer tags