Wilma B. Aleman Gonzalez
Wilma Aleman is a Staff Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Science Quality and Integrity (OSQI) in Reston, Virginia. She provides science support to several areas within OSQI: The Research Grade Evaluation Program (RGE), the Emeritus Program, and the Northern Virginia Community College Partnership. Previous to OSQI Wilma was a Geologist with the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center.
Education and Certifications
M.S. (2009) - Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
B.S. (2000) – Geology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Affiliations and Memberships*
2019-Present: Adjunct Faculty Geology Instructor, George Mason University, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Department, Fairfax Campus, Virginia.
Science and Products
Synthesis of geochronologic research on Late Pliocene to Holocene emergent shorelines in the lower Savannah River area of southeastern Georgia, USA
Emergent late Pliocene and Pleistocene shoreline deposits, morphologically identifiable Pleistocene shoreline units, and seaward-facing scarps characterize the easternmost Atlantic Coastal Plain (ACP) of the United States of America. In some areas of the ACP, these deposits, units, and scarps have been studied in detail. Within these areas, temporal and spatial data are sufficient for time-deposit
Authors
Helaine W. Markewich, Milan J. Pavich, Shannon A. Mahan, Paul R. Bierman, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, Arthur P. Schultz
Depositional sequence stratigraphy of Turonian to Santonian sediments, Cape Fear arch, North Carolina Coastal Plain, USA
A new sequence stratigraphic framework for Turonian to Santonian (94-84 Ma) sediments is established using data from the USGS Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores collected from the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina (NC). These sediments represent some of the oldest marine units deposited on the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain and record the early development of a clastic wedge atop cryst
Authors
Wilma Aleman Gonzalez, Jean Self-Trail, W. Burleigh Harris, Jessica P. Moore, Kathleen Farrell
The Carolina Sandhills: Quaternary eolian sand sheets and dunes along the updip margin of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, southeastern United States
The Carolina Sandhills is a physiographic region of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province in the southeastern United States. In Chesterfield County (South Carolina), the surficial sand of this region is the Pinehurst Formation, which is interpreted as eolian sand derived from the underlying Cretaceous Middendorf Formation. This sand has yielded three clusters of optically stimulated luminescence age
Authors
Christopher S. Swezey, Bradley A. Fitzwater, G. Richard Whittecar, Shannon A. Mahan, Christopher P. Garrity, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, Kerby M. Dobbs
Geochronologic evidence for a possible MIS-11 emergent barrier/beach-ridge in southeastern Georgia, USA
Predominantly clastic, off-lapping, transgressive, near-shore marine sediment packages that are morphologically expressed as subparallel NE-trending barriers, beach ridges, and associated back-barrier areas, characterize the near-surface stratigraphic section between the Savannah and the Ogeechee Rivers in Effingham County, southeastern Georgia. Each barrier/back-barrier (shoreline) complex is low
Authors
H. W. Markewich, M.J. Pavich, A. P. Schultz, S. A. Mahan, W. B. Aleman-Gonzalez, P.R. Bierman
Preliminary physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and geophysical data of the USGS South Dover Bridge Core, Talbot County, Maryland
The South Dover Bridge (SDB) corehole was drilled in October 2007 in Talbot County, Maryland. The main purpose for drilling this corehole was to characterize the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the aquifers and confining units of this region. The data obtained from this core also will be used as a guide to geologic mapping and to help interpret well data fro
Authors
Wilma B. Alemán González, David S. Powars, Ellen Seefelt, Lucy E. Edwards, Jean M. Self-Trail, Colleen T. Durand, Arthur P. Schultz, Peter P. McLaughlin
Karst map of Puerto Rico
This map is a digital compilation, combining the mapping of earlier geologists. Their work, cited on the map, contains more detailed descriptions of karst areas and landforms in Puerto Rico. This map is the basis for the Puerto Rico part of a new national karst map currently being compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition, this product is a standalone, citable source of digital karst dat
Preliminary Physical Stratigraphy and Geophysical Data From the USGS Dixon Core, Onslow County, North Carolina
In October through November 2006, scientists from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Region Earth Surface Processes Team (EESPT) and the Raleigh (N.C.) Water Science Center (WSC), in cooperation with the North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS) and the Onslow County Water and Sewer Authority (ONWASA), drilled a stratigraphic test hole and well in Onslow County, N.C. The Dixon corehole was c
Authors
Ellen Seefelt, Wilma Aleman B. Gonzalez, Jean M. Self-Trail, Robert E. Weems, Lucy E. Edwards, Herbert A. Pierce, Colleen T. Durand
Surficial geologic map of the Roanoke Rapids 30' x 60' quadrangle, North Carolina
The Roanoke Rapids 1:100,000 map sheet is located in northeastern North Carolina. Most of the area is flat to gently rolling, though steep slopes occur occasionally along some of the larger streams. Total relief in the area is slightly less than 400 feet (ft), with elevations ranging from sea level east of Murfreesboro in the far northeastern corner of the map to 384 ft near the northwestern map b
Authors
Robert E. Weems, William C. Lewis, Wilma Aleman-Gonzalez
Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project completes coring
No abstract available.
Authors
Gregory Gohn, C. Koeberl, K.G. Miller, W.U. Reimold, Oleg Abramov, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, N. Bach, K. Blazej, J. Browning, T. Bruce, C. Budet, L. M. Bybell, E.F. Cobbs, Eugene Cobbs, C. Cockell, Barbara S. Corland, Colleen T. Durand, H. Dypvik, J. Eckberg, Lucy E. Edwards, S. Eichenauer, T. Elbra, A.J. Elmore, J. Glidewell
Geologic map of the Stephens City quadrangle, Clark, Frederick, and Warren Counties, Virginia
The Stephens City 1:24,000-scale quadrangle is one of several quadrangles in Frederick County, Virginia being mapped by geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA with funding from the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. This work is part of a project being lead by the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Discipline, Virginia District, to investigate the geologic framewo
Authors
D. J. Weary, R. C. Orndorff, W. Aleman-Gonzalez
Grain size, microfossil, and strontium data for the Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores, North Carolina
Grain size, calcareous nannofossil, and strontium data for the Cenomanian to Santonian sediments of the Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores in North Carolina.
Science and Products
- Publications
Synthesis of geochronologic research on Late Pliocene to Holocene emergent shorelines in the lower Savannah River area of southeastern Georgia, USA
Emergent late Pliocene and Pleistocene shoreline deposits, morphologically identifiable Pleistocene shoreline units, and seaward-facing scarps characterize the easternmost Atlantic Coastal Plain (ACP) of the United States of America. In some areas of the ACP, these deposits, units, and scarps have been studied in detail. Within these areas, temporal and spatial data are sufficient for time-depositAuthorsHelaine W. Markewich, Milan J. Pavich, Shannon A. Mahan, Paul R. Bierman, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, Arthur P. SchultzDepositional sequence stratigraphy of Turonian to Santonian sediments, Cape Fear arch, North Carolina Coastal Plain, USA
A new sequence stratigraphic framework for Turonian to Santonian (94-84 Ma) sediments is established using data from the USGS Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores collected from the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina (NC). These sediments represent some of the oldest marine units deposited on the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain and record the early development of a clastic wedge atop crystAuthorsWilma Aleman Gonzalez, Jean Self-Trail, W. Burleigh Harris, Jessica P. Moore, Kathleen FarrellThe Carolina Sandhills: Quaternary eolian sand sheets and dunes along the updip margin of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, southeastern United States
The Carolina Sandhills is a physiographic region of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province in the southeastern United States. In Chesterfield County (South Carolina), the surficial sand of this region is the Pinehurst Formation, which is interpreted as eolian sand derived from the underlying Cretaceous Middendorf Formation. This sand has yielded three clusters of optically stimulated luminescence ageAuthorsChristopher S. Swezey, Bradley A. Fitzwater, G. Richard Whittecar, Shannon A. Mahan, Christopher P. Garrity, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, Kerby M. DobbsGeochronologic evidence for a possible MIS-11 emergent barrier/beach-ridge in southeastern Georgia, USA
Predominantly clastic, off-lapping, transgressive, near-shore marine sediment packages that are morphologically expressed as subparallel NE-trending barriers, beach ridges, and associated back-barrier areas, characterize the near-surface stratigraphic section between the Savannah and the Ogeechee Rivers in Effingham County, southeastern Georgia. Each barrier/back-barrier (shoreline) complex is lowAuthorsH. W. Markewich, M.J. Pavich, A. P. Schultz, S. A. Mahan, W. B. Aleman-Gonzalez, P.R. BiermanPreliminary physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and geophysical data of the USGS South Dover Bridge Core, Talbot County, Maryland
The South Dover Bridge (SDB) corehole was drilled in October 2007 in Talbot County, Maryland. The main purpose for drilling this corehole was to characterize the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the aquifers and confining units of this region. The data obtained from this core also will be used as a guide to geologic mapping and to help interpret well data froAuthorsWilma B. Alemán González, David S. Powars, Ellen Seefelt, Lucy E. Edwards, Jean M. Self-Trail, Colleen T. Durand, Arthur P. Schultz, Peter P. McLaughlinKarst map of Puerto Rico
This map is a digital compilation, combining the mapping of earlier geologists. Their work, cited on the map, contains more detailed descriptions of karst areas and landforms in Puerto Rico. This map is the basis for the Puerto Rico part of a new national karst map currently being compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition, this product is a standalone, citable source of digital karst datPreliminary Physical Stratigraphy and Geophysical Data From the USGS Dixon Core, Onslow County, North Carolina
In October through November 2006, scientists from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Region Earth Surface Processes Team (EESPT) and the Raleigh (N.C.) Water Science Center (WSC), in cooperation with the North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS) and the Onslow County Water and Sewer Authority (ONWASA), drilled a stratigraphic test hole and well in Onslow County, N.C. The Dixon corehole was cAuthorsEllen Seefelt, Wilma Aleman B. Gonzalez, Jean M. Self-Trail, Robert E. Weems, Lucy E. Edwards, Herbert A. Pierce, Colleen T. DurandSurficial geologic map of the Roanoke Rapids 30' x 60' quadrangle, North Carolina
The Roanoke Rapids 1:100,000 map sheet is located in northeastern North Carolina. Most of the area is flat to gently rolling, though steep slopes occur occasionally along some of the larger streams. Total relief in the area is slightly less than 400 feet (ft), with elevations ranging from sea level east of Murfreesboro in the far northeastern corner of the map to 384 ft near the northwestern map bAuthorsRobert E. Weems, William C. Lewis, Wilma Aleman-GonzalezChesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project completes coring
No abstract available.AuthorsGregory Gohn, C. Koeberl, K.G. Miller, W.U. Reimold, Oleg Abramov, Wilma B. Alemán‑González, N. Bach, K. Blazej, J. Browning, T. Bruce, C. Budet, L. M. Bybell, E.F. Cobbs, Eugene Cobbs, C. Cockell, Barbara S. Corland, Colleen T. Durand, H. Dypvik, J. Eckberg, Lucy E. Edwards, S. Eichenauer, T. Elbra, A.J. Elmore, J. GlidewellGeologic map of the Stephens City quadrangle, Clark, Frederick, and Warren Counties, Virginia
The Stephens City 1:24,000-scale quadrangle is one of several quadrangles in Frederick County, Virginia being mapped by geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA with funding from the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. This work is part of a project being lead by the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Discipline, Virginia District, to investigate the geologic framewoAuthorsD. J. Weary, R. C. Orndorff, W. Aleman-Gonzalez - Data
Grain size, microfossil, and strontium data for the Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores, North Carolina
Grain size, calcareous nannofossil, and strontium data for the Cenomanian to Santonian sediments of the Kure Beach and Elizabethtown cores in North Carolina.
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