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  2. Geology of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Geology of the United States. Shaded relief map of the United States, showing 10 geological provinces. The richly textured landscape of the United States is a product of the dueling forces of plate tectonics, weathering and erosion. Over the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, tectonic upheavals and colliding plates have raised great ...

  3. William Smith (geologist) - Wikipedia

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    Smith was born in the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, the son of John Smith (1735–1777), the village blacksmith, and his wife Ann (née Smith; 1745–1807). [3] His father died when Smith was eight years old, and he and his siblings were raised by his uncle, a farmer also named William Smith. [4] Largely self-educated, Smith was ...

  4. United States Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards ...

  5. Geology Camp gives kids view into rocks, seismology

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    Jun. 21—Making maps, hiking, exploring the geology around them and making a seismometer are among the things kids in University of Texas Permian Basin's Geology Camp have learned about this week.

  6. Great Plains - Wikipedia

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    The United States is a major exporter of agricultural products. The southern portion of the Great Plains lies over the Ogallala Aquifer , a huge underground layer of water-bearing strata. Center pivot irrigation is used extensively in drier sections of the Great Plains, resulting in aquifer depletion at a rate that is greater than the ground's ...

  7. Geology of Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    The geology of Nebraska is part of the broader geology of the Great Plains of the central United States. Nebraska's landscape is dominated by surface features, soil and aquifers in loosely compacted sediments, with areas of the state where thick layers of sedimentary rock outcrop. Nebraska's sediments and sedimentary rocks lie atop a basement ...

  8. Monument Valley - Wikipedia

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    View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...

  9. Category:Geology of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This category has the following 30 subcategories, out of 30 total. Geology of the United States by state ‎ (57 C, 42 P) Geology of Washington, D.C. ‎ (2 C, 3 P)

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