USGS: Science Topics: earth material properties

Science Topics

Earth material properties

Physical characteristics of rocks and unconsolidated earth materials such as soils and sediments.

Subtopics:
Resistivity (1 items)
Magnetism (1 items)

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Alaska mineral resources [New Window]: Reports, data, and current research on mineral resources in Alaska
Introduction to potential fields: Magnetics [New Window]: Explanation of the Earth's magnetic field and how USGS measures it. Defines magnetic anomaly, induced and remanent magnetism in rocks, and describes magnetic anomaly maps.
Schlumberger soundings at the Amargosa Desert Research Site, Nevada [New Window]: Report presenting the data, automatic interpretations, cross sections, and resistivity maps of direct current electrical soundings at the Amargosa Desert Research Site near Beatty, Nevada using a Schlumberger array.
usSEABED (marine sediment and rock distribution) [New Window]: Data on sediment and rock distributions in the waters off the United States, shown using an internet map service with links to downloadable data files

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