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The publications listed here rely on data collected by the Research Drilling Program. Its crews and rigs supply the cores, cuttings, borehole logs, and monitoring wells behind studies of aquifer systems, geologic hazards, and energy, mineral, and geothermal resources. The list includes work by USGS scientists and by university, state, and other federal partners.