Specific things by name
Science Topics provides links to USGS scientific information by categories, which are types of things. We have seen that occasionally people are looking for some specific thing by its name instead. In most cases these things would be described in several different categories, so this page provides a way to find the corresponding categories.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area of Federal land located on the North Slope of Alaska east and south of Prudhoe Bay. Exploitation of petroleum resources in this area is a political controversy.
Digital Elevation Model. A geospatial dataset describing topography in an area. The name refers also to a type of digital product provided by USGS.
Explosion, collapse, and destruction of an offshore oil drilling platform in April 2010 which released crude petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana
Mountain in Colombia formed by an active stratovolcano of andesitic composition.
Hurricane of 2005 causing massive damage in and around the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
Active volcano located between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. Exploded in 1883.
Computer software implementing a mathematical model of ground-water flow, produced by USGS.
Organically rich shale unit of middle Devonian age located in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States. Recently the source of natural gas production made economically viable through the use of lateral drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques.
Largest river basin of the country, located in the central part of the conterminous US.
Active volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia.
Active volcano located on the Philippine island of Luzon. Erupted violently in 1991.
Active volcano in southwestern Washington, famous for its explosive eruption in May 1980. Subject of detailed studies by USGS.
Active volcano located near Naples, Italy. Historically known for burying the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D.
Named instances of things. These will have many related terms from various thesauri.
Supercontinent formed during the late Paleozoic era by the geographic convergence of most of the world's continental plates.
A measure of the magnitude of an earthquake based on the measured displacement of the earth at local sites. The original method was based on specific instrumentation but the general idea it describes is used in more modern estimates of earthquake magnitude.
Earthquakes and volcanoes occur abundantly on the margins of the Pacific Ocean.
General concept of the recycling of material in the earth's crust, from the formation of mountains and the transfer of their material through erosion to the oceans as sediment, to its reincorporation in new mountains through tectonic subduction.
Geological fault system running through the southern half of California, on which earthquakes are common. The fault is a transform fault with right-lateral strike-slip motion.
National park located in the northwest corner of Wyoming at the site of a large volcanic caldera.
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