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The new USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map web tool was designed to also be mobile friendly, allowing users to explore geologic data from smartphones and tablets, in addition to larger devices. USGS image.

The new USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map web tool was designed to be mobile friendly, allowing users to explore geologic data easily from their smartphones or tablets. USGS image. 

This is an image of the Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Explorer, which is an interactive web map application featuring the 55 geoheritage sites from the Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Data Release v.1. 

This infographic introduces an approach that could subsequently be used to prioritize environmental research for the full range of critical elements.

Group photo of attendees to the field trip that was part of the NER SLaM fall meeting.

Great Falls, Maryland

Fall 2024 Photo Contest Winner: Carla Brezinski, Honorable Mention

PFOS removal occurred as sulfate-reducing bacteria increased in soil experiments with a dehalogenating culture. Graphic Credits: Denise Akob

Schematic cross section showing examples of chemical, mechanical, and thermal geologic energy storage methods in potential underground settings in a sedimentary basin. This illustration is a higher resolution version of figure 2 of USGS Fact Sheet 2022-3084.

Figure 3 from USGS Fact Sheet 2022-3082. Graph of typical energy storage capacity compared to typical discharge duration for various geologic and nongeologic energy storage methods. Oval sizes are estimated based on current technology. Modified from Crotogino and others (2017) and Matos and others (2019).

Map of the continental United States indicating the well density per 100 square mile grid cell of 117,672 unplugged orphaned wells in the 27 states included in the documented orphaned oil and gas well (DOW) dataset. Note the exponential scale of the coloring scheme used to preserve detail across both lower and higher well densities.

Oil, gas, and water separation vessels at a carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery operation, Horseshoe Atoll, Upper Pennsylvanian Wolfcampian play in the Permian Basin Province in Texas.

Grand Canyon National Park from Powell Point on the South Rim. Photo taken during a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the John Wesley Powell expedition. 

One charge of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Energy Resources Science Center is performing description
and analysis of hydrocarbon source rocks as input to USGS oil and gas assessments. This 2018 image
shows a coring and geophysical well-logging operation adjacent to U.S. Route 90, Kinney County, Texas.

Large layered nodule from the Roadside pit, Spor Mountain, Utah, showing fluorite, opal, and bertrandite mineralization. Beryllium is concentrated in the outer opal-fluorite zone; such samples can contain as much as 1-percent beryllium as bertrandite.

Illustration showing examples of infectious disease transmission pathways. This illustration is a higher resolution version of figure 5 of USGS Circular 1383-E.

The illustration visually conveys the following environmental health priority topics of study:

Illustration showing examples of environmental contaminant source and transport pathways. This illustration is a higher resolution version of figure 4 of USGS Circular 1383-E and figure 1 of USGS Open-file Report 2015-1113.

The use of carbon dioxide (CO₂) injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) can prolong the productivity of many oil reservoirs and increase the U.S. hydrocarbon recoverable resource volume.

A carbon dioxide (CO₂) injection well drilled by the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy) at the Cranfield CO₂ test site in Mississippi. The well was drilled to test the effectiveness of injecting and storing CO₂ in a deep saline reservoir.

Mine trucks transporting material from the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine in Colorado.

Mineralized section in the Cerro Maimón copper-gold-silver mine in the Dominican Replublic.