Welcome to the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
Our mission: Determine the potential of Alaskan land for production of metals, minerals, fuels, and geothermal resources, the locations and supplies of groundwater and construction material, and the potential geologic hazards to buildings, roads, bridges, and other installations and structures (AS 41.08.020).
Headlines
- New release! Reanalysis of historical U.S. Geological Survey sediment samples for geochemical data from the western part of the Wrangellia terrane, Anchorage, Gulkana, Healy, Mt. Hayes, Nabesna, and Talkeetna Mountains quadrangles, Alaska - RDF 2014-5
- New release! Major-oxide and trace-element geochemical data from rocks collected in 2014 in the Wrangellia mineral assessment area, Talkeetna Mountains C-4, C-3, and B-4 quadrangles, Alaska - RDF 2014-22
- New release! Alaska Coastal Profile Tool (ACPT) - DDS 7
- New release! 40Ar/39Ar data, Styx River map area, Lime Hills C-1 Quadrangle, Alaska - RDF 2014-21
- New release! 40Ar/39Ar data, Ray Mountains area, Bettles Quadrangle, Alaska - RDF 2014-19
- New release! Color-indexed elevation maps for flood-vulnerable coastal communities in western Alaska - MP 154
- New release! Preliminary characterization of brittle deformation on the Iniskin Peninsula: Implications for the kinematic history of the Bruin Bay fault system, lower Cook Inlet, Alaska - PIR 2014-5
- New release! Tsunami inundation maps of the villages of Chenega Bay and northern Sawmill Bay, Alaska - RI 2014-3
Publication Highlights
![DGGS Staff, 2014, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2013, 98 p. AR 2013 cover image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/ar/thumbnails/ar2013_100x130px.jpg)
![Swenson, R.F., Wartes, M.A., LePain, D.L., and Clough, J.G., 2012, Fossil fuel and geothermal energy sources for local use in Alaska: Summary of available information: Alaska Division of Geological
& Geophysical Surveys Special Report 66, 144 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:3,700,000. SR 66 thumbnail image](webpubs/dggs/sr/thumbnails/sr066_100x130px.jpg)
![Adleman, J.N. and Bluemink, Elizabeth, 2013, Second annual Alaska strategic and critical minerals summit: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 151, 17 p. MP 151 thumbnail image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/mp/thumbnails/mp151_100x130px.jpg)
![RI 2013-2 thumbnail image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/ri/thumbnails/ri2013_002_sh001_263x135.jpg)
![Gillis, R.J., 2014, Cook Inlet program 2013 field studies: Observations and preliminary interpretations from new 1:63,360-scale geologic mapping of the Iniskin Peninsula, lower Cook Inlet, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2014-2, 31 p. PIR 2014-2 thumbnail image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/pir/thumbnails/pir2014_002_100x130px.jpg)
![DDS 5 thumbnail image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/dds/thumbnails/dds005_209x130px.jpg)
![Athey, J.E., Harbo, L.A., Lasley, P.S., and Freeman, L.K., 2013, Alaska's mineral industry, 2012: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report 68, 61 p. SR 67
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image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141031145047im_/http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/sr/thumbnails/sr068_100x130px.jpg)