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Box 25046
Denver Federal Center
Denver
, CO
80225-0046
USA
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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
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Data are composite estimates (and standard errors) of the percentage of sagebrush area in desired conditions for 13 vegetation and soil indicators of land health on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Wyoming. Composite estimates were obtained using composite estimation to combine estimates from two overlapping BLM terrestrial, field-based monitoring surveys: the Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring terrestrial survey and the Landscape Monitoring Framework survey. Both are probability sample surveys. The case study area was sagebrush communities in Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse (sage-grouse) Core and NonCore conservation areas on BLM lands in Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Greater Sage-Grouse...
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The Leadville North 7.5' quadrangle lies at the northern end of the Upper Arkansas Valley, where the Continental Divide at Tennessee Pass creates a low drainage divide between the Colorado and Arkansas River watersheds. In the eastern half of the quadrangle, the Paleozoic sedimentary section dips generally 20–30 degrees east. At Tennessee Pass and Missouri Hill, the core of the Sawatch anticlinorium is mapped as displaying a tight hanging-wall syncline and foot-wall anticline within the basement-cored structure. High-angle, west-dipping, Neogene normal faults cut the eastern margin of the broad, Sawatch anticlinorium. Minor displacements along high-angle, east- and west-dipping Laramide reverse faults occurred in...
Tags: 10Be, 26Al,
Belden Formation,
Buckeye Peak,
Bull Lake glaciation,
Camp Hale, All tags...
Chaffee Group,
Chicago Ridge,
Colorado,
Colorado River,
Cooper Hill,
Dotsero Formation,
Eagle County,
Eagle River,
East Fork Arkansas River,
Geomorphology,
Gray porphyry group,
Hornblende Latite Porphyry,
Lake County,
Laramide,
Leadville,
Leadville Limestone,
Leadville Quadrangle,
Lincoln Porphyry,
Manitou Dolomite,
Minturn Formation,
Missouri Hill,
Mosquito Range,
Mount Zion,
No Name Gulch,
Pinedale Glaciation,
Rio Grande rift,
Sawatch Quartzite,
Sawatch Range,
Sawatch anticlinorium,
South Park,
St. Kevin Granite,
Structural Geology,
Tennessee Creek,
Tennessee Park,
Tennessee Pass,
Turquoise Lake,
USA,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Upper Arkansas River,
Upper Arkansas Valley,
White Porphyry Group,
cosmogenic nuclide,
neotectonics,
pre-Bull Lake glaciation, Fewer tags
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The Ziegler Reservoir fossil site near Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) provides a rare opportunity to examine environmental conditions in the Rocky Mountains during marine isotope stage (MIS) 4 (71–57 ka). Although recognized as a global-scale cold event, MIS 4 is typically absent from Rocky Mountain glacial chronologies because the geologic evidence was either covered or destroyed during the subsequent, and larger, MIS 2 (Pinedale; 29–14 ka) glaciation. The Ziegler Reservoir site is perched on a ridge above Pinedale glacial limits, which allowed for the preservation of a long-lived sequence of predominantly eolian sediments that spans from late MIS 6 (ca. 140 ka) through early MIS 3 (ca. 55 ka). Sediments dating...
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On the continental scale, climate is an important determinant of the distributions of plant taxa and ecoregions. To quantify and depict the relations between specific climate variables and these distributions, we placed modern climate and plant taxa distribution data on an approximately 25-kilometer (km) equal-area grid with 27,984 points that cover Canada and the continental United States (Thompson and others, 2015). The gridded climatic data include annual and monthly temperature and precipitation, as well as bioclimatic variables (growing degree days, mean temperatures of the coldest and warmest months, and a moisture index) based on 1961-1990 30-year mean values from the University of East Anglia (UK) Climatic...
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