Donald S Sweetkind

Digital location of monoclines and structural uplifts of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

The Colorado Plateau structural province features long monoclinal flexures between uplifts and basins that are the major lines of deformation within and marginal to the Plateau. These folds are named, well-known, and have been described as part of several previous tectonic syntheses of the Colorado Plateau (Kelley, 1955; Davis, 1978; 1999). However, no digital data have ever been created that locate these folds in digital map space. This digital dataset compiles mapped locations of monoclinal folds from several geologic maps from the Colorado Plateau, most released only in “paper”, non-vector format. Fold names and their general map trace were guided by regional-scale maps that synthesize the tectonic elements of...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Geomorphology, NCGMP (National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program), All tags... National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, Piceance Basin, San Juan Basin, US GeoFramework Initiative, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uinta Basin, United States GeoFramework Initiative, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, elevation, folding (geologic), geologic structure, geoscientificInformation, structural geology, Fewer tags

Hydrogeologic Framework data and models for the Eel River groundwater basin, Humboldt County, California

This data release contains a geospatial database related to a digital 3D hydrogeologic framework model (3D HFM) of the Eel River Valley groundwater basin, California. The geospatial database contains two main data elements: (1) input data to the 3D HFM; (2) interpolated elevations and thicknesses of hydrogeologic units as a cellular array, which are a spatial representation of the 3D HFM results. Three hydrogeologic framework models of the same extent and similar conceptualization but successively increasing complexity were developed to characterize the structure, thickness, and extent of the materials within the basin; data from each phase of model-building are contained in this data release. The Phase 1 3D HFM...

Tags: California, Lower Eel, Northern California Coastal, Sedimentology, Structural Geology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, biota, geoscientificInformation, hydrogeology, Fewer tags

Digital subsurface database of previously published well tops, structural features, and contour maps of the Inyan Kara Group, Minnekahta Formation, Minnelusa Formation, Madison Group, and Deadwood Formation, Black Hills region, South Dakota and Wyoming

This digital data release presents multiple previously published elements of the structural configuration of the Black Hills regional subsurface. The original data within this geodatabase is sourced from multiple U.S. Geological Survey Open File Reports into the hydrology of the Black Hills, stored on the USGS Water Mission Area NSDI Node (Driscoll, 1992; Strobel et al., 1999; Williamson et al., 2000). Data include mapped surface exposures of faults and fold hinges, the location and depth of 1025 formation tops of the Madison Group, Minnelusa Formation, and Minnekahta Formation from water well scout tickets, isopach contours of the Madison Group and Minnelusa Formation, and structure contour maps of the top of the...

Categories: Data; Tags: Black Hills, Deadwood Formation, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Formation Tops, All tags... GeMS, Geologic Map Schema, Hydrology, Inyan Kara Group, Isopach Contours, Madison Group, Mineral Resources, Minnekahta Formation, Minnelusa Formation, NCGMP, NGS, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, Sedimentology, South Dakota, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Structure Contours, Structure Contours, Structure Mapping, US GeoFramework Initiative, USGI, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wyoming, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Surface and subsurface geologic data from previous USGS studies of the Gulf Coast region, south-central United States

This dataset captures in digital form the results of previously published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area studies related to water resource assessment of Cenozoic strata and unconsolidated deposits within the Mississippi Embayment and the Gulf Coastal Plain of the south-central United States. The data are from reports published from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s by the Gulf Coast Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) studies and in 2008 by the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS). These studies, and the data presented here, describe the geologic and hydrogeologic units of the Mississippi embayment, Texas coastal uplands, and the coastal lowlands aquifer systems, south-central...

Tags: 3D, Alabama, Arkansas, Cane River Formation, Carrizo Sand, All tags... Cenozoic, Claiborne Group, Coastal lowlands aquifer system, Cockfield Formation, Cook Mountain Formation, Eocene, Geography, Jackson Group, Kentucky, Laredo Formation, Louisiana, Lower Claiborne confining unit, Lower Wilcox aquifer, McNairy-Nacatoch aquifer, Memphis Sand, Middle Claiborne aquifer, Middle Claiborne confining unit, Middle Wilcox aquifer, Midway Group, Midway confining unit, Miocene, Mississippi, Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, Mississippi embayment aquifer system, Missouri, NCGMP (National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program), National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, Oklahoma, Oligocene, Paleocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, Regional Aquifer System Analysis, Sparta Sand, Tennessee, Tertiary, Texas, Texas coastal uplands aquifer system, US GeoFramework Initiative, USGI, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States GeoFramework Initiative, Upper Claiborne Aquifer, Upper Wilcox aquifer, Vicksburg Group, Wilcox Group, Yegua Formation, alluvial, borehole, elevation, elevation, environment, hydrogeologic, marine shale, sandstone, stratigraphic thickness, structure contours, thickness, three dimensional, Fewer tags

Data Release - Digital subsurface data from previously published contoured maps of the tops of the Mowry Shale, Morrison Formation, and Minnelusa Formation, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana

This digital data release contains previously published contours on the tops of the Mowry Shale, Morrison Formation, and Minnelusa Formation. The maps are from a series of U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies (MF) showing computer-generated structure contours, isopachs, and cross sections of selected formations in the Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana (Crysdale 1990, 1991a, 1991b). The maps were constructed from information stored in a U.S. Geological Survey Evolution of Sedimentary Basins data base. This data base contains picks of geologic formation and (or) unit tops and bases determined from electric resistivity and gamma-ray logs of 8,592 wells penetrating Tertiary and older rocks in the...

Categories: Data; Tags: Montana, Powder River basin, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wyoming, elevation, geologic structure, geoscientificInformation, structure contours, Fewer tags