Images

This image shows an inukshuk, a stone cairn used by indigenous peoples in northern latitudes, particularly in places like northern Canada. 

A drill rig at the Mallik test site in Canada's Mckenzie Delta.  USGS joined the Geological Survey of Canada, JAPEX, and the Japanese National Oil Company to drill test wells for natural gas production from gas hydrate deposits.

View from a distance of the power plant cooling tower on the edge of Lake Michigan.

Erika Lentz examines Pennsylvanian coal samples in West Virginia.

 An abandoned mine shaft taken in the Mojave Basin and Range Ecoregion (NV) in August 2002.

Gas hydrate recovered in shallow layers just below the seafloor during piston coring in the Mississippi Canyon in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

For more information, contact USGS civil engineer Bill Winters at: bwinters@usgs.gov

Silhouette of a solitary windmill against a reddened and cloudy sky.

View southward from Fortress Mountain Formation on Atigun syncline towards Brooks Range.  Trans-Alaska Pipeline, haul road, and Galbraith Lake in valley.  Location in Brooks Range foothills, about 90 miles southeast of Umiat.

A bed of manganese nodules from deep offshore of the Cook Islands; photo sourced from Hein et al., 2015, taken during a Japanese research cruise in the year 2000. Nodules range from about 2 to 10 centimeters across.

Cover page for the USGS Open File Report 99-349. Read the original report here: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/mapping-glacial-geology-central-great…

The south area of the La Honda oil field, California, was discovered during the late 1950s and produced an estimated 595,000 barrels of oil from about 12 wells, including the well in this photo.

This is the cover page of USGS Circular 1190. View the publication here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1190/

Dr. Suzanne Nicholson in Isle Royale, 1996

Dr. Suzanne Nicholson in Isle Royale, 1996

1981 - Aerial photo of Reston VA USGS Federal Building. EROS History Project

The panorama shows Cimarron River-bed operations in a portion of the Cushing Oil Field on December 2, 1915. The view is looking to the southwest from a river overlook located in Creek County, Oklahoma. The panorama was constructed from two photographs taken by A.E. Fath

The species of bats that are most susceptible to wind turbines all roost in trees throughout the year, leading some scientists to speculate that they may be visually mistaking wind turbines for trees in which to roost.

Map of the Eastern Mediterranean region showing the area included in the USGS Levant Basin Province assessment.

USGS scientists looking at Eocene sandstones and limestones in Wadi Degla, northern Egypt. This area was studied to understand the Levant Basin Province, as both regions have similar rock formations.

Scientists from AIST, JOGMEC, Georgia Tech, and the USGS prepare to analyze pressure cores as part of a multi-year gas hydrates research project in Japan. Front to back: Masato Kida (AIST), Yoshihiro Konno (AIST), William Waite (USGS), Jiro Nagao (AIST), and Yusuke Jin (AIST), analyze test results from pressurized hydrate-bearing sediment cores.

Scientists from AIST, JOGMEC, Georgia Tech, and the USGS prepare to analyze pressure cores as part of a multi-year gas hydrates research project in Japan. Left to right: David Mason (USGS), Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech), and Yoshihiro Konno (AIST).