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Natural resource assessment
Estimation of the actual or potential value of natural materials and processes.
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1999 resource assessment of selected Tertiary coal beds and zones in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region. [New Window]
Coal resources, stratigraphy, geochemistry, coal quality and geology of Tertiary coal beds and zones in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains regions. Text in PDF format and available on CD-ROM.
National Coal Resource Assessment: Geologic assessment of coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah [New Window]
Coal resources, stratigraphy, geochemistry, coal quality and geology of coal in the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Text in PDF format and available on CD-ROM.
Alaska petroleum resources [New Window]
Information on Alaskan energy resources in oil, petroleum, and natural gas with links to publications and other research.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, petroleum assessment, 1998, including economic analysis [New Window]
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) 1002 area's petroleum resource assessment. Text available in PDF and HTML formats.
Central Region Mineral Resources Team [New Window]
Site for programs of the Central Region Mineral Resources Team with links to products, personnel, projects and programs of land stewardship, regional geochemistry, analytical chemistry, geology and resources assessment and remote sensing.
Coal Resource Classification System of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and U.S. Geological Survey [New Window]
A report published jointly by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and U.S. Geological Survey giving definitions of coal resource classification terms.
Coal Resource Classification System of the U.S. Geological Survey [New Window]
The classification system by which coal is classified into resource/reserve base/reserve categories on the basis of the geologic assurance of the existence of those categories and on the economic feasibility of their recovery.
Eastern Energy Resources Team (EERT) [New Window]
Links to overview, major programs, products and publications on coal, oil & gas, environment & human health, and resource economics, and special applications (Geo-Data Explorer (GEODE) and Kidzone)
Eastern Mineral Resources [New Window]
Home page for Eastern Mineral Resources Team conducting research on the occurrence, quality, quantity, and availability of mineral resources. Links to products, descriptions of research projects, and staff.
Great Lakes assessment of water availability and use [New Window]
Information about basin storage, historical changes, and consumptive water use for manages and planners to use to develop policies for efficient and sustainable water use.
Marine aggregate resources and processes [New Window]
Regional studies mapping the seafloor sedimentary character and assessing marine sand and gravel resources around the United States, to inform beach nourishment and coastal restoration, benthic habitat and sediment transport studies
National Coal Assessment [New Window]
The USGS National Coal Assessment provides a quantitative study of the nation's coal endowment. Links to digital publications with maps for the Illinois Basin, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, and Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota.
National Oil and Gas Assessment [New Window]
Links to oil and gas assessment maps of major basins in the United States and to related publications, and products.
Source Water-Quality Assessment [New Window]
Characterize the quality of selected rivers and aquifers used as a source of supply to community water systems in the United States to determine the occurrence of about 280 primary unregulated anthropogenic organic compounds.
Status and trends of the Nation's biological resources [New Window]
This report is major publication on national biological resources that compiles and presents status and trends information for use by resource managers and the public. Presents detail information on ecosystems, plants, and animals.
World Petroleum Assessment 2000: description and results [New Window]
World Petroleum Assessment 2000 estimates of the quantities of conventional oil, gas, and natural gas liquids outside the United States that have the potential to be added to reserves in the next 30 years (1995 to 2025).
World petroleum assessment [New Window]
A rigorous geologic foundation for estimating world undiscovered energy resources. Links to world energy resources text and maps (PDF format), total petroleum system (TPS), and world geologic maps.
PDF Assessing rangelands [New Window]
Fact sheet in Adobe PDF on assessing the health of rangeland by monitoring and inventory which can help land managers
Central Energy Team [New Window]
The Central Energy Team, Denver, in the USGS Energy Resources Program, provides assessments of energy resources (coal, oil, natural gas). Site links to world and national assessments, publications and products, and Methane Field Conference.
Coal on federal lands [New Window]
Information on coal on federally owned public lands with links to database and maps for federal coal ownership of the United States, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau.
Economics of undiscovered oil in the federal lands of the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska [New Window]
Online report summarizing the economic analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey's 2002 petroleum assessment of the Federal lands in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPRA) study area.
PDF Ground-water availability in the United States [New Window]
Report examines what is known about the Nation's ground-water availability, and outlines a program of study to improve our understanding of ground-water availability in major aquifers across the Nation. With regional examples.
Multielement geochemical dataset of surficial materials for the northern Great Basin [New Window]
This report presents geochemical data generated during mineral and environmental assessments for the Bureau of Land Management in northern Nevada, northeastern California, southeastern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, along with metadata and maps.
National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Legacy Data Archive [New Window]
Access is provided to seismic data, image files of seismic data, well logs, and cores of petroleum reserves in Alaska from the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, and (NPRA) Legacy Data Archive.
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center [New Window]
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NRMSC) based at Bozeman, Montana conducts research to help natural resources management in the Northern Rocky Mountains with field stations at West Glacier and Missoula. Links to staff, programs, and partners.
World Coal Quality Inventory (WoCQI) [New Window]
Homepage of the World Coal Quality Inventory (WoCQI) with sample collection procedures.


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