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Western Region Geology and Geophysics Science Center

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Major GGSC projects include:

Geology of Parks and Federal Lands of the Southwest


3D/4D mapping of the San Andreas Fault Zone

Neotectonics of the northern Mojave Desert, California


Navajo Land Use Planning Project

Pacific Northwest Urban Corridor Geologic Mapping

Geohydrology of Coast Ranges Basins

Basins & Landscape Co-Evolution in Southern California

Geologic Maps of Northern Utah

World Petroleum Resources

Alaska Petroleum Resources

Geothermal Resources Studies



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GGSC scientists examining "Chaos" - unusual complexly faulted and altered rocks of Precambrian and Cambrian(?) age in southeastern Death Valley National Park.

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