Data Releases

This dataset includes high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) and true-color images collected from crewed aircraft and a point shapefile and corresponding comma-delimited tabular data representing the longitudinal spatial patterns of surface water temperature in the surveyed streams in the Santiam River Basin, Oregon. The aerial surveys were contracted through Watershed Sciences, LLC by...

This report includes whole rock geochemical data from a newly collected suite of samples from igneous systems across Arizona. The data release includes samples collected in calendar year 2024 that support an ongoing, multi-year project dedicated to characterizing magmatic porphyry systems toward understanding possible basement influence on porphyry style mineralization. This preliminary...

At the Rockbridge Stone Products sand and gravel open pit mine along Loves Run, two Optically Stimulated Luminescence samples from an f2 fan deposit yielded dates from ca. 157 to 139 ka (Carter and others, 2017). These two ages were used to define the Pleistocene map units within the quad.

New bedrock and surficial geologic mapping in the Blue Ridge of NW NC and SW VA covers the Sparta East, Sparta West, and parts of the Glade Valley and Whitehead 7.5-minute quadrangles and includes the epicentral area of the 9 August 2020 Mw 5.1 earthquake near Sparta, NC. Mapping documented (1) the co-seismic surface rupture from the 2020 earthquake and brittle structures in the bedrock...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program has actively collected geophysical and sedimentological data in the northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) for several decades, including shallow subsurface data in the form of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles (HRSP). Prior to the mid-1990s most HRSP data were collected in analog format as...

On 10 August 2025, a landslide in Tracy Arm, southeast Alaska, approximately 95 km southeast of Juneau, generated a tsunami with regional effects. Because of poor weather, low visibility, and inaccessible conditions in the water, little was immediately known about the landslide or the total extent and magnitude of the tsunami. On Wednesday, 13 August 2025, USGS scientists Cyrus Read and...

Grand Falls Dune Field (GFDF) on the Navajo Nation (70 km NE of Flagstaff, AZ) is an active, bimodal dune system in both grain size and composition. Felsic grains derive from the Little Colorado River, while mafic (basaltic) grains are sourced locally from nearby cinder cones, making GFDF an excellent terrestrial analog for dune fields on Mars, Venus, and Titan. A long‑term...

Metrics describing watershed hydrology, stream hydraulics, stream geomorphology, physicochemical processes, and aquatic biology were used to assess a 1.72 km reach of stream above the U.S. Geological Surveys (USGS) Flatlick Branch (station ID 01656903) monitoring station restored using natural channel design. The monitoring station has been continually operated since the start of water...

We used telemetry data from 55 trumpeter swans in the Rocky Mountain Population captured in summer and winter in the western United States to understand their migratory movements and use of habitats. This dataset includes telemetry data collected between October and March from 35 swans (5 swans captured in Oregon and 14 swans captured by Wyoming Wetlands Society are not included due to...

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units, assessment input data, and resulting fact sheet data tables for the assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of India and Sri Lanka. The assessment unit is the fundamental unit used in the National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The...

Multiple subaerial landslides adjacent to Prince William Sound, Alaska (for example, Dai and others, 2020; Higman and others, 2023; Schaefer and others, 2024) pose a threat to the public because of their potential to generate ocean waves (Barnhart and others, 2021, 2022; Dai and others, 2020) that could affect towns and marine activities. One bedrock landslide on the west side of Barry...

Groundwater salinity impacts water quality and limits usability for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes where salinity is high. Salinity is a measure of the mass of dissolved salts in a given volume of solution and is closely related to the concentration of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) as well as the ability of water to conduct electricity, or specific conductance (SC)...