USGS: Science Topics: Mono

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Scientific drilling in Long Valley, California: What will we learn? [More info]: Description of 1998 drilling project at Long Valley Exploratory Well located on Long Valley Caldera's resurgent dome to monitor changing conditions beneath the dome. (Document in PDF format.)
Extent of Pleistocene lakes in the western Great Basin [More info]: Map of Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the western Great Basin (Nevada, eastern California, southern Oregon). Includes metadata, online PDF map view, and downloadable ArcInfo export files, ArcView shapefiles, and TIFF files.
Photo gallery of the Long Valley area, California [More info]: Selection of photographic images of the Long Valley area that illustrate the consequences of the past geologic history of the Sierra Nevada, Long Valley Caldera, the Mono-Inyo Craters volcanic chain, glaciation, and faulting.
Boiling water at Hot Creek - The dangerous and dynamic thermal springs in California's Long Valley Caldera [More info]: Explains how these hot surface waters form, why their temperature changes often, and provides safety guidance for visiting this area.
Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GeoMAC) wildland fire perimeters, 2008 [More info]: Where the fires were, as GIS data in shapefile format, geographic coordinates, NAD83.
Groundwater quality in the Owens Valley, California [More info]: Trace elements boron, arsenic, and molybdenum were found at high concentrations in 15% of primary aquifers in this area.

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