Why Is The Federal Government Spending Millions On Aerial Geological Mapping In Southern Colorado?
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https://www.cpr.org/2025/11/19/geological-survey-earth-mri-colorado-minerals/ <-- shared media article
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https://www.usgs.gov/earth-mapping-resources-initiative-earth-mri <-- shared (USGS) Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) entry page
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https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/emri/#3/40/-96 <-- shared Earth MRI web map(s)
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc <-- shared USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center entry page
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https://mrdata.usgs.gov/earthmri/data-acquisition/project.php?f=html&pid=1071 <-- shared USGS Colorado Alkaline Igneous Belt Survey report
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/mineral-resources-program/science/what-are-critical-minerals-0 <-- shared final 2025 #DOI / #USGS report on list of critical minerals
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#geophysics #remotesensing #earthobservation #airborne #mapping #spatial #criticalminerals #colorado #geology #structuralgeology #Colorado #USA #EarthMRI #SouthernColorado #geologicdata #geologicmapping #geochemistry #igneous #survey #geophysicalsurvey #economic #economy #mineral #mineralresources
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Earth’s 8th Continent Buried Under The Pacific Finally Mapped By Scientists [Zealandia / Te Riu-a-Māui - “Finally”? ~wink~]
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https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/earth-8th-continent-finally-mapped/ <-- shared (somewhat) technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007961 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://youtu.be/DDbc4K7bgnA?si=EZFmmPFybPLLyND7 <-- shared animation
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"KEY POINTS
• Basalts and pebbly to cobbly sandstones have been dredged from the Fairway Ridge, Coral Sea
• Dating of the rocks and interpretation of magnetic anomalies allow mapping of major geological units across North Zealandia
• This work completes offshore reconnaissance geological mapping of the entire 5 million square km Zealandia continent…”
#geology #doggerland #Zealandia #TeRiuaMaui #godwana #godwanaland #cretaceous #mapping #geologicmapping #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewZealand #SouthPacific #continent #sampling #sediment #dredging #petrography #geochemistry #isotope #analyses #research #cenozoic #intraplate #platetectonics #tectonics #eocene #remotesensing #geophysics #geomagnetism
Geological Map Of The Canadian Offshore Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone
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https://doi.org/10.4095/prfrc4j5xf <-- shared technical article / map
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[I spent a lot of time living, working and exploring in the PNW – ski bum in Whistler, many dives, offroad motorcycling, engineering geologist, spatial data, cultural + technical + history reading, otherwise exploring, etc – and am fascinated by this area personally and professionally…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #remotesensing #Canada #PNW #WestCoast #EEZ #marine #ocean #geology #geologicmapping #opendata #tectonics #ExclusiveEconomicZone #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest
@NRCAN
NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals from Skies Above Western US

Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.

NASA Science
Unaweep Canyon

Two creeks flow out of either end of Unaweep Canyon in opposite directions.

Atlas Obscura
Why Geological Maps Are the Best Investment You’ve Never Heard Of

Investments in geological mapping paid off big time for Americans.

ZME Science
Large-scale submarine landslides in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, southern Africa—Evidence for subduction and great earthquakes in the Paleoarchean | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

New mapping of the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa shows that the central part is a pseudo-stratigraphy made of shallow-water and deep-water