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Byron Stone, Ph.D.

Byron Stone is a Research Geologist at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center.

Byron Stone is a Research Geologist in the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA. Since joining the USGS as an NAGT field assistant in 1969, and as a fulltime geologist in 1974, he has devoted his career to studying Quaternary glacial geology and late Cenozoic clastic basins, and he specializes in glacial sedimentology and three-dimensional stratigraphic analyses.  He has contributed to geologic mapping projects in eight states, Morocco, and Cyprus.  Presently, his research focuses on the multiple glacial stratigraphic framework of the southern Great Lakes region and the southern glacial terminus region of northeastern U.S.

Professional Experience

  • Kentucky Cooperative Mapping Project:  National Association of Geology Teachers Field Assistant, detailed geologic mapping.

  • New Hampshire, Connecticut, and  Massachusetts Cooperative Projects: assistant geologist, detailed geologic mapping, Project Chief of Massachusetts Project

  • Geologic framework of the Middle Rio Grande region, New Mexico Cooperative Mapping and Modelling Project: geologist, detailed geologic mapping and 3D stratigraphic modelling for hydrogeologic applications

  • Central Great Lakes Coalition and Geology of Berrien County, Michigan: Project Chief, detailed geologic mapping, intermediate-scale compilation maps of Berrien County, Michigan, 3D subsurface data

  • Geology of the Jebel Saghro region, Morocco, and  Seismic Risk of the Nicosia Area, Cyprus International Cooperative Projects: geologist, detailed geologic mapping, intermediate-scale compilation maps of six field areas in southern Morocco, and the Nicosia, Cyprus, urban area.

  • Surficial Marerials Project and Quaternary Stratigraphic Framework of Massachusetts Project: Project Chief, detailed geologic mapping, intermediate-scale compilation map of Massachusetts and adjacent offshore areas; extensive legacy and new field data, lidar data, geophysical-surveys, subsurface data, new geochronologic techniques, glacial stratigraphy of the northeastern U.S.

Education and Certifications

  • Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A., 1969

  • The Ohio State University, Geology summer field camp, 1968

  • University of Vermont,  M.S., 1971

  • The Johns Hopkins University,  Ph.D., 1974

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Implementation plan of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program strategy—Great Lakes (Central Lowland and Superior Upland Physiographic Provinces)

IntroductionThe U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) has published a strategic plan entitled “Renewing the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program as the Nation’s Authoritative Source for Modern Geologic Knowledge”. This plan provides the following vision, mission, and goals for the program for the years 2020–30:Vision: create an integrated, thr
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Energy Resources Program, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Impact of the 1993 floods in the upper Mississippi River basin

No abstract available.
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Lithostratigraphic, geophysical, and hydrogeologic observations from a boring drilled to bedrock in glacial sediments near Nantucket Sound in East Falmouth, Massachusetts

In spring 2016, a 310-foot-deep boring (named MA–FSW 750) was drilled by the U.S. Geological Survey near Nantucket Sound in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the hydrogeology of the southern coast of western Cape Cod. Few borings that are drilled to bedrock exist in the area, and the study area was selected to fill a gap between comprehensive geologic datasets inland to the north and ma
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Water Resources, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, New England Water Science Center

Cosmogenic nuclide age estimate for Laurentide Ice Sheet recession from the terminal moraine, New Jersey, USA, and constraints on latest Pleistocene ice sheet history

The time at which the Laurentide Ice Sheet reached its maximum extent and subsequently retreated from its terminal moraine in New Jersey has been constrained by bracketing radiocarbon ages on preglacial and postglacial sediments. Here, we present measurements of in situ produced 10Be and 26Al in 16 quartz-bearing samples collected from bedrock outcrops and glacial erratics just north of the termin
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Quaternary geology of the Boston area: Glacial events from Lake Charles to Lake Aberjona

The multiple-glacial and glaciomarine Quaternary history of the Boston, Massachusetts area has been known generally since the earliest studies of the then newly recognized glacial deposits described by Prof. Louis Agassiz in the late1840’s and fossil marine shells in the drift in the 1850’s. Attention then turned to possible glacial erosional effects on the preglacial bedrock physiography, as rela
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Late Pleistocene and Holocene uplift history of Cyprus: implications for active tectonics along the southern margin of the Anatolian microplate

The nature of the southern margin of the Anatolian microplate during the Neogene is complex, controversial and fundamental in understanding active plate-margin tectonics and natural hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Our investigation provides new insights into the Late Pleistocene uplift history of Cyprus and the Troodos Ophiolite. We provide isotopic (14C) and radiogenic (luminescence)
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Refining the model of barrier island formation along a paraglacial coast in the Gulf of Maine

Details of the internal architecture and local geochronology of Plum Island, the longest barrier in the Gulf of Maine, have refined our understanding of barrier island formation in paraglacial settings. Ground-penetrating radar and shallow-seismic profiles coupled with sediment cores and radiocarbon dates provide an 8000-year evolutionary history of this barrier system in response to changes in se
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Surficial geologic map of the Norton-Manomet-Westport-Sconticut Neck 23-quadrangle area in southeast Massachusetts

The surficial geologic map shows the distribution of nonlithified earth materials at land surface in an area of 23 7.5-minute quadrangles (919 mi2 total) in southeastern Massachusetts. Across Massachusetts, these materials range from a few feet to more than 500 ft in thickness. They overlie bedrock, which crops out in upland hills and as resistant ledges in valley areas. The geologic map different
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New England Water Science Center

The role of backbarrier infilling in the formation of barrier island systems

Barrier islands develop through a variety of processes, including spit accretion, barrier elongation, and inlet filling. New geophysical and sedimentological data provide a means of documenting the presence of a paleoinlet within a barrier lithosome in the western Gulf of Maine, illuminating the process of backbarrier infilling and its effect on barrier and tidal inlet morphodynamics. The transpor
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Surficial Geologic Map of the Pocasset-Provincetown-Cuttyhunk-Nantucket 24-Quadrangle Area of Cape Cod and Islands, Southeast Massachusetts

The surficial geologic map layer shows the distribution of nonlithified earth materials at land surface in an area of 24 7.5-minute quadrangles (555 mi2 total) in southeast Massachusetts. Across Massachusetts, these materials range from a few feet to more than 500 ft in thickness. They overlie bedrock, which crops out in upland hills and as resistant ledges in valley areas. On Cape Cod and adjacen

Deglaciation in the southeastern Laurentide Sector and the Hudson Valley – 15,000 Years of vegetational and climate history

In this field trip, we provide a review of the significant controversy concerning the timing of deglaciation in the Hudson and Wallkill Valleys. We outline the differences in methodology and chronology with a circular route throughout the Hudson and Wallkill valleys. We begin the trip at Lake Mohonk near New Paltz led by Kirsten Menking and Dorothy Peteet, then continue to the “black dirt” region
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Energy Resources Program, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Miocene mass-transport sediments, Troodos Massif, Cyprus

Sediment mass-transport layers of submarine origin on the northern and southern flanks of the Troodos ophiolitic massif are dated biostratigraphically as early Miocene and late Miocene, respectively and therefore represent different seismogenic events in the uplift and erosional history of the Troodos terrane. Analysis of such events has potential for documenting Miocene seismic and uplift events
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Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Task 2

Task 2-Quaternary Geologic Mapping and Subsurface Correlation

The area encompassed by Task 2 includes various regions on the margins of the Great Lakes, with initial focus on: (1) several counties along the east margin of Lake Michigan (Leelanau, Benzie, Manistee, and Mason Counties of Michigan); and (2) Berrien County of southwestern Michigan. The primary objective of Task 2 is to produce a seamless, zoomable geologic framework map geodatabase in GeMS...
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
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Task 2-Quaternary Geologic Mapping and Subsurface Correlation

The area encompassed by Task 2 includes various regions on the margins of the Great Lakes, with initial focus on: (1) several counties along the east margin of Lake Michigan (Leelanau, Benzie, Manistee, and Mason Counties of Michigan); and (2) Berrien County of southwestern Michigan. The primary objective of Task 2 is to produce a seamless, zoomable geologic framework map geodatabase in GeMS...
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Surficial geologic map of Berrien County, Michigan, and the adjacent offshore area of Lake Michigan

The surficial geologic map of Berrien County, southwestern Michigan (sheet 1), shows the distribution of glacial and postglacial deposits at the land surface and in the adjacent offshore area of Lake Michigan. The geologic map differentiates surficial materials of Quaternary age on the basis of their lithologic characteristics, stratigraphic relationships, and age. Drill-hole information correlate
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Surficial Geologic Map of Northern New Jersey

Surficial geologic map of central and southern New Jersey

No abstract available.
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Preliminary geologic map of the Loma Machete Quadrangle, Sandoval County, New Mexico

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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Map showing bedrock-surface topography of the Toledo area, northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan

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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Surficial Geologic Map of the Worcester North Quadrangle and Part of the Paxton Quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts

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