Reports in this series are aimed at a core professional and non-core professional audience. The Professional Paper series is the premier series of the USGS and includes comprehensive reports of wide and lasting interest and scientific or technical importance. The reports are characterized by thoroughness of study and breadth of scope and/or geographic coverage. The series also may include collections of related papers addressing different aspects of a single scientific topic, either issued together under one cover or separately as chapters.
Publications in this series from the Western Region will be linked from here as they are produced.
The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
By Robert L. Christiansen
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp729g/
Historic Ground Failures in Northern California Triggered by Earthquakes
By T.L. Youd and S.N. Hoose
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1978/pp0993/
Hillside Materials and Slopes of the San Francisco Bay Region, California
By Stephen D. Ellen and Carl M. Wentworth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1357/
Volcanism in Hawaii; Papers to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Edited by Robert W. Decker, Thomas L. Wright, and Peter H. Stauffer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1987/1350/
The Geology and Remarkable Thermal Activity of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Donald E. White, Roderick A. Hutchinson, and Terry E.C. Keith
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1456/
Element Concentrations in Soils and Other Surficial Materials of Alaska
By L.P. Gough, R.C. Severson, and H.T. Shacklette
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1458/
The San Andreas Fault System, California
Edited by Robert E. Wallace
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1990/1515/
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989—Earthquake Occurrence
Coordinated by William H. Bakun and William H. Prescott
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1550/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989—Strong Ground Motion and Ground Failure
Coordinated by Thomas L. Holzer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1551/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989—Performance of the Built Environment
Coordinated by Thomas L. Holzer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1552/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989—Societal Response
Coordinated by Thomas L. Holzer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1553/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
Hydrothermal Mineralogy of Core from Geothermal Drill Holes at Newberry Volcano, Oregon
By Keith E. Bargar and Terry E.C. Keith
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1578/
Are North Slope Surface Alluvial Fans Pre-Holocene Relicts?
By Erk Reimnitz and Stephen C. Wolf
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1605/
Magma Migration and Resupply During the 1974 Summit Eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
By John P. Lockwood, Robert I. Tilling, Robin T. Holcomb, Fred Klein, Arnold T. Okamura, and Donald W. Peterson
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1613/
Catalog of Hawaiian Earthquakes, 1823-1959
By Fred Klein and Thomas L. Wright
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1623/
Migration of the Acadian Orogen and Foreland Basin Across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and Adjacent Areas
By Dwight C. Bradley, Robert D. Tucker, Daniel R. Lux, Anita G. Harris, and D. Colin McGregor
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1624/
Phanerozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Circum-North Pacific
By Warren J. Nokleberg, Leonid M. Parfenov, James W.H. Monger, Ian O. Norton, Alexander I. Khanchuk, David B. Stone, Christopher R. Scotese, David W. Scholl, and Kazuya Fujita
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/2000/1626/
The Effect of Selected Cleaning Techniques on Berkshire Lee Marble: A Scientific Study at Philadelphia City Hall
By Victor G. Mossotti, A. Raouf Eldeeb, Terry L. Fries, Mary Jane Coombs, Virginia N. Naudé, Lisa Soderberg, and George Wheeler
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/2002/pp1635/
An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Regional-Scale Nonpoint Source Ground-Water Vulnerability: Theory and Application
By Richard L. Bernknopf, Laura B. Dinitz, and Keith Loague
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1645/
Forecasting Selenium Discharges to the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary: Ecological Effects of a Proposed San Luis Drain Extension
By Theresa S. Presser and Samuel N. Luoma
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1646/
Mountain Meadows Dacite: Oligocene Intrusive Complex That Welds Together the Los Angeles Basin, Northwestern Peninsular Ranges, and Central Transverse Ranges, California
By Thane H. McCulloh, Larry A. Beyer, and Ronald W. Morin
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1649/
Crustal Structure of the Coastal and Marine San Francisco Bay Region, California
Edited by Tom Parsons
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1658/
Crustal Deformation at the Leading Edge of the Oregon Coast Range Block, Offshore Washington (Columbia River to Hoh River)
By Patricia A. McCrory, David S. Foster, William W. Danforth, and Michael R. Hamer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1661a/
Local Tsunami Hazards in the Pacific Northwest from Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes
By Eric L. Geist
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1661b/
Crustal Structure and Earthquake Hazards of the Subduction Zone in Southwestern British Columbia and Western Washington
By Michael A. Fisher, Roy D. Hyndman, Samuel Y. Johnson, Thomas M. Brocher, Robert S. Crosson, Ray E. Wells, Andrew J. Calvert, and Uri S. ten Brink
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1661c/
Crustal Structure of the Cascadia Fore Arc of Washington
By Tom Parsons, Richard J. Blakely, Thomas M. Brocher, Nikolas I. Christensen, Michael A. Fisher, Ernst Flueh, Fiona Kilbride, James H. Luetgert, Kate Miller, Uri S. ten Brink, Anne M. Trehu, and Ray E. Wells
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1661d/
Seismic Stability of the Duwamish River Delta, Seattle, Washington
By Robert E. Kayen and Walter A. Barnhardt
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1661e/
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2000
Frederic H. Wilson and John P. Galloway, Editors
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1662/
Subsurface and Petroleum Geology of the Southwestern Santa Clara Valley ("Silicon Valley"), California
By Richard G. Stanley, Robert C. Jachens, Paul G. Lillis, Robert J. McLaughlin, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Frances D. Hostettler, Kristin A. McDougall, and Leslie B. Magoon
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1663/
Age and Tectonic Significance of Volcanic Rocks in the Northern Los Angeles
Basin, California
By Thane H. McCulloh, Robert J. Fleck, Rodger E. Denison, Larry A. Beyer, and Richard G. Stanley
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1669/
Trace-Element Deposition in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela Shelf, under Sulfate-Reducing Conditionsa History of the Local Hydrography and Global Climate, 20 ka to the Present
By David Z. Piper and Walter E. Dean
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1670/
The Pu‘u ‘O‘o-Kupaianaha Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai‘i: The First 20 Years
Edited By Christina Heliker, Donald A. Swanson, and Taeko Jane Takahashi
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1676/
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2001
Edited By John P. Galloway
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1678/
The Role of Geoscience Information in Reducing Catastrophic Loss Using a Web-Based Economics Experiment
By Richard L. Bernknopf, David S. Brookshire, and Philip T. Ganderton
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1683/
Marine Geology and Earthquake Hazards of the San Pedro Shelf Region, Southern California
By Michael A. Fisher, William R. Normark, Victoria E. Langenheim, Andrew J. Calvert, and Ray Sliter
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1687/
Quaternary Paleoseismology and Stratigraphy of the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada
Edited by William R. Keefer, John W. Whitney, and Emily M. Taylor
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1689/
Mid-Tertiary Isopach and Lithofacies Maps for the Los Angeles Region, California: Templates for Palinspastic Reconstruction to 17.4 Ma
By Thane H. McCulloh and Larry A. Beyer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1690/
Eruptive History and Chemical Evolution of the Precaldera and Postcaldera Basalt-Dacite Sequences, Long Valley, California: Implications for Magma Sources, Current Seismic Unrest, and Future Volcanism
By Roy A. Bailey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1692/
Formation, Evolution, and Stability of Coastal CliffsStatus and Trends
Edited by Monty A. Hampton and Gary B. Griggs
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1693/
Metallogenesis and Tectonics of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera
By Warren J. Nokleberg, Thomas K. Bundtzen, Roman A. Eremin, Vladimir V. Ratkin, Kenneth M. Dawson, Vladimir I. Shpikerman, Nikolai A. Goryachev, Stanislav G. Byalobzhesky, Yuri F. Frolov, Alexander I. Khanchuk, Richard D. Koch, James W.H. Monger, Anany I. Pozdeev, Ilya S. Rozenblum, Sergey M. Rodionov, Leonid M. Parfenov, Christopher R. Scotese, and Anatoly A. Sidorov
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1697/
Tephra Layers of Blind Spring Valley and Related Upper Pliocene and Pleistocene Tephra Layers, California, Nevada, and Utah: Isotopic Ages, Correlation, and Magnetostratigraphy
By Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Marith C. Reheis, Malcolm S. Pringle, Robert J. Fleck, Doug Burbank, Charles E. Meyer, Janet L. Slate, Elmira Wan, James R. Budahn, Bennie Troxel, and James P. Walker
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1701/
Ground-Water Recharge in the Arid and Semiarid Southwestern United States
Edited by David A. Stonestrom, Jim Constantz, Ty P.A. Ferré, and Stanley A. Leake
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1703/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
Geologic Studies of the Platte River, South-Central Nebraska and Adjacent Areas-Geologic Maps, Subsurface Study, and Geologic History
By Steven M. Condon
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1706/
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700-Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
By Brian F. Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue, and David K. Yamaguchi
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1707/
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2004
Edited by Peter J. Haeussler and John P. Galloway
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709/
26 km of Offset on the Lake Clark Fault Since Late Eocene Time
By Peter J. Haeussler and Richard W. Saltus
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709a/
Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Nanushuk, Seabee, and Tuluvak Formations Exposed on Umiat Mountain, North-Central Alaska
By David W. Houseknecht and Christopher J. Schenk
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709b/
Thermobarometric Constraints on Mid-Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous Metamorphic Events in the Western Metamorphic Belt of the Coast Mountains Complex near Petersburg, Southeastern Alaska
By Glen R. Himmelberg and David A. Brew
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709c/
Argon Geochronology of Late Pleistocene to Holocene Westdahl Volcano, Unimak Island, Alaska
By Andrew T. Calvert; Richard B. Moore; and Robert G. McGimsey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709d/
Micromorphologic Evidence for Paleosol Development in the Endicott Group, Siksikpuk Formation, Kingak(?) Shale, and Ipewik Formation, Western Brooks Range, Alaska
By Julie A. Dumoulin and Tim White
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709e/
Constraints on the Age and Provenance of the Chugach Accretionary Complex from Detrital Zircons in the Sitka Graywacke near Sitka, Alaska
By Peter J. Haeussler, George E. Gehrels, and Susan M. Karl
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1709f/
San Francisquito Creek-The Problem of Science in Environmental Disputes, Joint Fact Finding as a Transdisciplinary Approach toward Environmental Policy Making
By Nicolas L. Rofougaran and Herman A. Karl
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1710/
Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas in the San Joaquin Basin Province, California
Edited by Allegra Hosford Scheirer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1713/
Petroleum Systems and Analysis of Improved Government Geological Map Information for Mineral Exploration: Incorporating Efficiency, Productivity, Effectiveness, and Risk Considerations
By R.L. Bernknopf, A.M. Wein, M.R. St-Onge, and S.B. Lucas
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1721/
Rates, Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Urban Land-Use Change in the United States
Edited by William Acevedo, Janis L. Taylor, Dave J. Hester, Carol S. Mladinich, and Sonya Glavac
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1726/
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2005
Edited by Peter J. Haeussler and John P. Galloway
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1732/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
The Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona-Evidence for Middle Cenozoic Detachment Faulting, Plutonism, Volcanism, and Hydrothermal Alteration
By Dennis P. Cox, Eric R. Force, William H. Wilkinson, Syver W. More, John S. Rivera, and Joseph L. Wooden
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1733/
Geological Studies of the Salmon River Suture Zone and Adjoining Areas, West-Central Idaho and Eastern Oregon
Edited by Mel A. Kuntz and Lawrence W. Snee
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1738/
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2006
Edited by Peter J. Haeussler and John P. Galloway
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1739/
This set of publications consists of the following Chapters:
Age, Stratigraphy, and Correlations of the Late Neogene Purisima Formation, Central California Coast Ranges
By Charles L. Powell II, John A. Barron, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Joseph C. Clark, Frank A. Perry, Earl E. Brabb, and Robert J. Fleck
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/2007/1740/
Quaternary Magmatism in the Cascades—Geologic Perspectives
By Wes Hildreth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1744/
The Role of Eolian Sediment in the Preservation of Archeologic Sites Along the Colorado River Corridor in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
By Amy E. Draut and David M. Rubin
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1756/
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