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Map of basement domains

Basement Tectonic Framework of the U.S.: Role of Cratonization of Juvenile Crust and Structural Modification in Forming Metallogenic Provinces

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Paleomagnetism and geology of Eocene volcanic rocks of southwest Washington, implications for mechanisms of tectonic rotation

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Digital structural mapping of Mars

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Thick- and thin-skinned contractional styles and the tectonic evolution of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA

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Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks of Alaska and their role in its structural evolution

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Half-meter-thick quartz veins cut across outcrops of granitic gneiss on Divide Mountain along the Alaska-Yukon border

Tectonic and Metallogenic Evolution of the Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska

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Crustal structure and quaternary acceleration of deformation rates in central Washington revealed by stream profile inversion, potential field geophysics, and structural geology of the Yakima folds

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

Digital Representation of Geologic Units Above and Beneath Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, Pennsylvanian, and Mississippian Periods from USGS Publications

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Niki Wintzer performing field work in Idaho

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

Numerical simulations of lithospheric shortening on the ice-covered moons Europa and Enceladus

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Geophysical evidence for wedging in the San Gorgonio Pass structural knot, southern San Andreas fault zone, southern California

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Lydia M Staisch, Ph.D.
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Keith Howard

Keith A Howard
Presentations and Events
snowcapped mountain peak surrounded by tree-covered hillslopes

Understanding large rock slides in deglaciated valleys in the Central and Patagonian Andes

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

Digital Representation of Isopach Maps for Selected Sequences of the Cretaceous Published by Reeside (1944) and Other Sources

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Thomas Pratt, Ph.D.
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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Data Release for Surficial Geology and Quaternary Tectonics of the Madison Valley and Fault Zone, Madison, Gallatin, and Beaverhead Counties, southwest Montana

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

Formation and Evolution of the Pacific-North American (San Andreas) Plate Boundary: Constraints from the Crustal Architecture of Northern California

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A USGS scientist is collecting structural measurements from a bedrock outcrop in the West Crazy Mountains in eastern interior Alaska. Fireweed is in bloom along the slopes.

Geologic mapping and sampling in Alaska
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The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya

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

Digital Representation of Isopach Maps for Selected Geologic Periods from an Atlas Published by Sloss and others (1960)

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

Digital Data for a Three-Dimensional Geologic Map of the San Andreas Fault Zone Between Gold Hill and Pinnacles National Park, California

Research
Rippling marine deposits with hammer shown for scale

Sedimentology and Structure Working Group

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

Digital Representation of Selected Isopach and Geologic Maps from U.S. Geological Survey Paleotectonic Publications

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Shear surface undulations modulate gouge strength and contribute to divergent landslide acceleration
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Active landsliding and rock strength controls along Big Sur Coast, CA
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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Magnetotelluric data from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky, 2016-2019

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Geophysical framework of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field and hydrogeologic implications

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

Geologic Inputs for the 2023 Alaska Update to the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM)

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Ediacaran-Ordovician magmatism and REE mineralization in the Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for failed continental rifting

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