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Our primary areas of research:

  • Regional Geophysics
  • Geologic mapping and three-dimensional modeling of geologic framework
    • For groundwater and geothermal resource studies
    • For seismic hazards analyses
    • For buried mineral deposit assessments
  • Surficial geologic mapping and geomorphologic analysis
    • For environmental studies
    • For neotectonic and fault history analyses
  • Energy Resource Assessments
  • Earth surface processes:
    • Hazards: landslides, debris flows, rockfalls, flood hazards
    • Climate history, landscape change, environmental geology
  • Chronostratigraphy and Paleontology
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GGSC scientists gather on Dantes View Overlook to examine southern Death Valley (spring, 2009)

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