Map data and Unmanned Aircraft System imagery from the May 25, 2014 West Salt Creek rock avalanche in western Colorado

On May 25, 2014, a rain-on-snow induced rock avalanche occurred in the West Salt Creek Valley on the northern flank of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. The avalanche traveled 4.6 km down the confined valley, killing 3 people. The avalanche was rare for the contiguous U.S. because of its large size (54.5 Mm3) and long travel distance. To understand the avalanche failure sequence, mechanisms, and mobility, we mapped landslide structures, geology, and ponds at 1:1000-scale. We used high-resolution, Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) imagery from July 2014 as a base for our field mapping. Here we present the map data and UAS imagery. The data accompany an interpretive paper published in the journal Geosphere. The full citation...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Collbran, Colorado, Grand Mesa, Green River Formation, UAS, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Unmanned Aircraft System, West Salt Creek, alluvium, breccia, debris flow, debris-flow deposits, fatalities, faults, folds, hazard, imagery, landslide, normal fault, ponds, rain on snow, rainfall, rock avalanche, rock slide, slip surface, snowmelt, springs, strike-slip fault, structures, thrust fault, Fewer tags

Data release for the geologic map of the upper Arkansas River valley region, north-central Colorado

This 1:50,000-scale geologic map represents a compilation of the most recent geologic studies of the upper Arkansas River valley, between Leadville and Salida, Colorado. The valley is structurally controlled by an extensional fault system that forms part of the prominent northern Rio Grande rift, an intra-continental region of crustal extension. This work also incorporates new detailed geologic mapping of poorly understood areas within the map area and reinterprets previously studied areas, aided by lidar data that covers 59 percent of the map area. The mapped region extends into the Proterozoic metamorphic and intrusive rocks in the Sawatch Range west of the valley and the Mosquito Range to the east. Paleozoic...

Categories: Data; Tags: 207Pb/206Pb zircon age, 40Ar/39Ar age, Arkansas River, Balltown, Balltown placer gold mining areas, All tags... Belle of Granite Mine, Big Union Creek, Bishop ash, Black Cloud Mine, Black Mountain, Browns Canyon, Browns Canyon fluorspar mining district, Browns Creek, Buckskin Gulch, Buena Vista, Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Peaks, Bull Lake glaciation, Cache Creek, California Gulch, California Mine, Centerville, Chaffee County, Chalk Creek, Clear Creek, Clear Creek Reservoir, Colorado, Cottonwood Creek, Dry Union Gulch, Eagle County, Eagle River, East Fork Arkansas River, Eddy Creek, Elephant Rock, Fremont County, Front Range, Garfield, Garfield Mine, Garfield mining district, Gordon Mine, Granite, Granite mining district, Granite placer gold mining areas, Hayden Gulch, Homestake Reservoir, Iowa Gulch, Johnson Village, Lake County, Lake Creek, Langhoff Gulch, Lava Creek B ash, Leadville, Leadville mining district, Lilly Mine, London Mine, Malta, Maysville, Mesozoic rocks, Morrison Creek, Mosquito Range, Mount Aetna, Mount Antero, Mount Antero mining district, Mount Princeton, Mount Shavano, Mount Yale, Paleozoic rocks, Park County, Pine Creek, Pinedale glaciation, Pitkin County, Poncha Springs, Proterozoic rocks, Quaternary deposits, Rio Grande rift, Riverside, Rock Creek, Ruby Mine, Ruby Mountain, San Juan Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Range, Sawatch Range, Sedalia Mine, Sedalia copper-zinc mining district, South Arkansas River, South Park, South Platte River, Squaw Creek, St. Kevin mining district, Structural Geology, Sugar Loaf mining district, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tennessee Creek, Tertiary rocks, Triad Ridge, Trout Creek, Trout Creek Pass, Trout Creek paleovalley, Tumble Creek, Turquoise Lake, Twin Lakes Reservoir, Twin Lakes mining district, Two Bits mining district, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Western Alma mining district, Weston Pass, Weston Pass mining district, Yankee Blade Mine, alluvial deposits, alluvium, andesite, artificial-fill deposits, augen gneiss, basalt, basin-fill deposits, breccia, colluvium, copper, cosmogenic surface-exposure age, dacite, debris flow, debris-flow deposits, diamicton, diorite, eolian deposits, fan deposits, fault, faulting, fluorspar, fluvial deposits, gabbro, glacial deposits, glacial flood deposits, glacial flood gravel, glaciofluvial deposits, gneiss, gold, graben, granite, granitic gneiss, granodiorite, gravel, hydrologic hazards, hypabyssal rhyolite, intrusive rock, lahar deposit, lamprophyre, landslide deposits, latite, lava, lead, leucogranite, leucogranite gneiss, lidar imagery, man-made deposits, mass-movement deposits, mass-movement hazards, metabasalt, metagabbro, metaigneous rocks, metasedimentary rocks, metavolcanic rocks, microtonalite, mine, mine-waste deposits, mineral deposits, mining district, monzodiorite, monzogranite, monzonite, mud-flow deposits, neotectonics, ore, outwash, outwash gravel, peat deposits, pegmatite, periglacial, placer gold, placer-tailings deposits, porphyry, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, quartz diorite, quartz latite, quartzite, rhyodacite, rhyolite, rift, rock-glacier deposits, sackungen, sand and gravel resources, scarp, schist, sedimentary rocks, seismic hazards, silver, smelter-slag deposits, soil, surficial deposits, talus deposits, till, tuff, volcanic ash, volcanic breccia, volcanic rock, weathering, wetland deposits, zinc, Fewer tags