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Geochemical data included were generated as part of the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative (CMMI). Individual samples are classified according to the Hofstra et al. (2021) CMMI deposit classification scheme. The goal of CMMI is to collaborate with Geoscience Australia and the Geological Survey of Canada to build a global database of critical minerals in a variety of ore deposits. The...

This dataset includes rock magnetic susceptibility and gamma ray spectrometry measurements from 204 outcrops in southwest Montana during 2025. The measurements were collected to understand the causative sources of airborne magnetic and radiometric survey anomalies in the Idaho-Montana porphyry belt. Sixteen magnetic susceptibility measurements were collected at each analyzed site using a...

Analyses were conducted in 2025 to examine glaciolacustrine rhythmic laminations interpreted as annual layers (varves) in a sediment core collected from Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County, New Jersey in 2010. The dataset includes results from portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), particle size analysis (PSA), visible (color) and near-infrared spectrophotometry, and...

Samples from the Alaska Placer Concentrate Collection (APCC) were retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geochemical Sample Archives and submitted for mineralogical analysis at the Colorado School of Mines. The APPC contains samples from placer mining operations throughout Alaska. The original collection contained approximately 5,000 samples that were collected by USGS

This data release includes two datasets: The first dataset includes results of bioassay (acute and chronic toxicity) tests on five aircraft deicer and anti-icer products, which were tested for determination of the 15-min EC50 (Aliivibrio fischeri), the acute LC50 (Ceriodaphnia dubia and Pimephales promelas), and the chronic IC25 (C. dubia, P. promelas, and R. subcapitata) at the...

Beaver dams can help streams connect to their floodplains. These floodplain connections can expand the range of available aquatic habitats and aid in the restoration of stream and floodplain processes. North American beavers (Castor canadensis) occupy a wide variety of aquatic habitats; however, their ability to build dams, the agent of stream and floodplain change, is constrained in...

Beaver dams affect stream hydraulics by temporarily impounding water in stream channels. Beaver dams and their associated impoundments can potentially influence streamflow hydrographs and stream hydraulics in multiple ways including altering the magnitude and duration of high flows, temporary storage of storm water, and the range and spatial distribution of water depths and velocities in...

The California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP) analyzed per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater samples collected from domestic and public drinking water supply wells in California. GAMA-PBP is a cooperative program between the U.S. Geological Survey and the California State Water Resources Control Board. This...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Transportation, estimated the magnitude and frequency of floods corresponding to the 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs; otherwise known as the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 500-year floods, respectively) for 346 selected streamgages in New...

This data release provides phytoplankton identification and enumeration data during an algal bloom at Ash River boat docks on Kabetogama Lake (USGS site ID 482603092511801) collected between September 12 and September 13, 2023. samples were collected every three hours over a 24-hour period at two sites, one at the end of a dock and one on the adjacent shoreline. Two quality assurance...

This data release provides phytoplankton and fish environmental DNA (eDNA) and cyanotoxin biosynthesis gene abundance data from an algal bloom at Ash River Boat Docks on Kabetogama Lake (USGS site ID 482603092511801) collected between September 12 and September 13, 2023. Algal bloom samples were collected every three hours over a 24-hour period at two sites, one at the end of a dock and...

This data release provides cyanobacteria identification and enumeration data at Ash River Boat Docks on Kabetogama Lake (USGS site ID 482603092511801) collected in 2022. Sixteen environmental samples and four quality assurance replicates were collected from two locations, one at the end of the dock and one at the shoreline, between September 21, 2022 and September 22, 2022.