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Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Representative whole-rock analyses of the Spor Mountain Formation, Utah_Dataset 2

Photography
180 degree panorama photograph showing a red-banded rock formation with water in the foreground and mostly cloudy sky overhead.

Flaming Gorge rock formation panorama

Photography
Image: Chimney Rock Formation

Chimney Rock Formation

Photography
Image: Chimney Rock Formation

Chimney Rock Formation

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Image: Chimney Rock Formation

Chimney Rock Formation

Animated GIF
Water levels in a fractured rock aquifer fluctuate as seismic waves move past.

Groundwater Response to Seismic Waves

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Properties of solid bitumen formed during hydrous, anhydrous, and brine pyrolysis of oil shale

Photography
Rock formations throughout Glen Canyon

Rock formations throughout Glen Canyon

Photography
Image: Metasedimentary Rocks at the Apple Creek Formation

Metasedimentary Rocks at the Apple Creek Formation

Photography
Image: Biotite-Rich Rock in the Gunsight Formation

Biotite-Rich Rock in the Gunsight Formation

Charts or Graphs
Schematic deposit model showing formation of hydrothermal minerals along faults

Schematic deposit model showing formation of hydrothermal minerals along faults

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Facies variation within outcrops of the Triassic Shublik Formation, northeastern Alaska

Photography
Large Rock in Lake Superior neat the Apostle Islands

Lonely Rock

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Distribution of coarse- and fire-grained rocks in the Wasatch formation and their relationship to uranium deposits, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

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Clay mineral formation and transformation in rocks and soils

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Studies of the Permian Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Great Basin-Rocky Mountain region

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Lithium-bearing rocks of the Horse Spring Formation, Clark County, Nevada

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The geology and mechanics of formation of the Fort Rock Dome, Yavapai County, Arizona

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Conceptual models of the formation of acid-rock drainage at road cuts in Tennessee

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate Rock in 2018 (PDF)

Phosphate Rock in 2018 (PDF)

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Depositional environments of the Rock Springs Formation, southwest flank of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming.

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Whole rock geochemistry and comparative leachability of variably bleached and red sandstones of the Permian Cutler Formation, Mesa County, Colorado

Photography
Image: Balanced Rock, Arches National Park

Balanced Rock, Arches National Park

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate Rock in August 2021 (PDF)

Phosphate Rock in August 2021 (PDF)

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate Rock in July 2021 (PDF)

Phosphate Rock in July 2021 (PDF)

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate rock in June 2021 (PDF)

Phosphate rock in June 2021 (PDF)

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate Rock in 2017 (PDF)

Phosphate Rock in 2017 (PDF)

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Hydrocarbon source-rock evaluation - Solor Church Formation (middle Proterozoic, Keweenawan Supergroup), southeastern Minnesota

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Experimental and textural constraints on mafic enclave formation in volcanic rocks

NMIC Mineral Report
Phosphate rock in April 2021 (PDF)

Phosphate rock in April 2021 (PDF)

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