FEDMAP Projects List
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A list of current FEDMAP-funded projects with brief descriptions of their purpose and, where available, Web site links are given below. Additional information about these and past FEDMAP projects is contained in the NCGMP-Funded Geologic Mapping and Related Studies database, available through the Mapping Projects section of this Web site.
- 3D/4D Mapping of the San Andreas Fault Zone
- Purpose: To understand the evolution of the San Andreas Fault since its inception.
- Appalachian Blue Ridge Landscape
- Purpose: To determine how geology has influenced the topography, water, soils, and plant and animal communities of the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Atlantic Estuaries
- Purpose: To understand the interactions of geology, land-use practices, and climate and their influence on ecosystems of Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
- Basins and Landscape Co-evolution (BALANCE)
- Purpose: To understand the earth-surface processes related to ground water, geologic hazards, and ecosystems in southern California.
- Carolina Continental Margin
- Purpose: To understand how geology affects ground-water availability in North and South Carolina.
- Cenozoic Tectonics of Northwest Utah
- Purpose: To understand Cenozoic faulting, volcanism, and depositional histories of the region as a predictor of future geologic events.
- Central Colorado Assessment
- Purpose: To provide a comprehensive geologic information base in the central Colorado urban corridor for addressing the region's land-use issues.
- Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
- Purpose: To understand the present-day hydrogeologic effects of a comet or meteorite impact in the western Atlantic Ocean about 35 million years ago.
- Core Geochronology Operations
- Purpose: To provide potassium/argon rock and mineral dating for the USGS.
Debris-Flow Studies in the San Francisco Bay Region
Purpose: To understand the influence of wind-driven rainfall on the position of shallow landslides in the San Francisco Bay region.
FOQUS-LA (Focus on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Los Angeles Region)
- Purpose: To understand the geology of the Los Angeles area and how it influences earthquake hazards and the availability and contamination of ground water.
- Framework Geology of Mid-Continent Carbonate Aquifers
- Geologic Framework of Rio Grande Basins
- Purpose: To understand how geology influences the availability of ground-water and natural resources and tectonic hazards in Rio Grande basins in New Mexico and Colorado.
- Geologic Mapping and Hydrology of Crystalline Rocks
- Purpose: To understand the distribution and behavior of ground water and ground-water contaminants in parts of the eastern
- Geology of Parks and Federal Lands of the Southwest
- Purpose: To provide the National Park Service with the geologic understanding they need to make informed land-use decisions.
- Purpose: To understand geologic controls on ground-water, geothermal, and buried mineral resources in the Great Basin.
- Glacial Aquifer Systems Stratigraphy (GLASS)
- Purpose: To understand how glacial deposits influence the availability of ground-water and aggregate resources.
- Integrated Geological, Geophysical, and Geochemical Studies of Big Bend National Park
- Purpose: To provide information about the geology of Big Bend National Park to help with solving its numerous land-use issues.
- Isotope Geochemistry/Geochronology Research and Development— Multi- User New Capabilities
- Purpose: To develop the best isotope geochemistry/geochronology technology for the USGS.
- Isotopic/Geochronology Core Operations, Lab Support
- Purpose: To provide isotope/geochronology expertise for the USGS.
- Karst Applied Research Studies through Geologic Mapping
- Purpose: To understand how karst can influence ground-water availability and urbanization.
- Missouri River Geologic Framework
- Purpose: To provide hydrologic controls on water availability and to understand the surficial processes that control the geology, hydrology, and ecology of the lower
- National Geologic Map Database
- Purpose: To make geologic maps and related databases of North America more accessible to the public.
- Navajo Land-Use Planning Project
- Purpose: To provide a geologic framework to the Navajo Nation for land-use planning and natural resource management.
- Pacific Northwest Urban Corridor Geologic Mapping
- Purpose: To provide geologic mapping, geophysical surveys, and research needed for earthquake hazard mitigation and groundwater resource assessments in the Seattle-Portland urban corridor.
Regional Surficial Geologic Mapping, Western Plains and Rocky Mountains
Purpose: To provide surficial geologic maps in the western plains and the Rocky Mountains for multiple land uses.
- Surficial Geologic Mapping in the Southwest
- Purpose: To provide geologic databases for understanding the potential long-term effects of urban development and land use in the Mojave Desert near Las Vegas.
- Tephrochronology Laboratory
- Purpose: To provide the USGS with reliable geologic ages for volcanic rocks.
- Understanding Geohydrologic Systems from Geologic Framework and History
- Purpose: To understand how geology influences ground-water availability, movement, and contamination in the western U.S.
- Wildfire-related Debris Flow and Landslide Hazards
- Purpose: To understand how and why wildfires can cause landslides.
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