Data Releases
The data collected and the techniques used by USGS scientists should conform to or reference national and international standards and protocols if they exist and when they are relevant and appropriate. For datasets of a given type, and if national or international metadata standards exist, the data are indexed with metadata that facilitates access and integration.
Filter Total Items: 15903
Water Quality data compiled for Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California Water Quality data compiled for Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California
Groundwater arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley have varied over the decades from 1980 to 2019. This report was compiled to determine whether arsenic concentrations are increasing or decreasing and the mechanism controlling the trends. The San Joaquin Valley contains 4,979 wells with arsenic analyses and possible co-detections of any of the following constituents: dissolved...
Data release for Oxygen isotopes in terrestrial gastropod shells track Quaternary climate change in the American Southwest Data release for Oxygen isotopes in terrestrial gastropod shells track Quaternary climate change in the American Southwest
Recent studies have shown the oxygen isotopic composition (delta18O) of modern terrestrial gastropod shells is determined largely by the delta18O of precipitation. This implies that fossil shells could be used to reconstruct the delta18O of paleo-precipitation as long as the hydrologic pathways of the local watershed and the shell isotope systematics are well understood. In this study...
Mapping of 101 agricultural pesticides annually for 2013-2017 for the conterminous United States Mapping of 101 agricultural pesticides annually for 2013-2017 for the conterminous United States
This dataset consists of a series of 1-kilometer rasters which provide a mapping of the estimated use of 101 agricultural pesticide compounds for the conterminous United States. Each compound is mapped annually for the years 2013 through 2017, thus there are 505 rasters posted (101 compounds x 5 years). The datasets were created by taking previously-published county-level estimates of...
Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the Winchester 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-derived Elevation Models at 3 Meter Resolution Enhanced Terrain Imagery of the Winchester 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle from Lidar-derived Elevation Models at 3 Meter Resolution
This imagery dataset consists of 3 meter resolution, Lidar-derived imagery of the Winchester 30 x 60 minute quadrangle in northern Virginia, West Virginia, and western Maryland. The source data used to construct this imagery consists of 1 meter resolution lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEM). The lidar source data were compiled from different acquisitions published between 2011...
Map data from landslides triggered by Hurricane Maria in three study areas in the Lares Municipality, Puerto Rico Map data from landslides triggered by Hurricane Maria in three study areas in the Lares Municipality, Puerto Rico
In late September 2017, intense precipitation associated with Hurricane Maria caused extensive landsliding across Puerto Rico. Much of the Lares municipality in central-western Puerto Rico was severely impacted by landslides. Landslide density in this region was mapped as greater than 25 landslides/km2 (Bessette-Kirton et al., 2019). In order to better understand the controlling...
Displacement and strain field from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes derived from analysis of WorldView optical satellite imagery (ver. 2.0, May 2021) Displacement and strain field from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes derived from analysis of WorldView optical satellite imagery (ver. 2.0, May 2021)
This Data Release contains co-seismic horizontal and vertical displacements of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes derived from sub-pixel cross correlation of WorldView satellite optical imagery. Additionally, the dataset contains the 2-dimensionsal (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) surface strain fields, inverted from the surface displacements. Associated publication: Barnhart, W.D., Gold, R.D