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U.S. Geological Survey National Center in Reston, Virginia Earthquake animations from May 16 to May 22, 2010 Earthquakes around the world from April 23 to May 23, 2010. Since 2012, the USGS science focus has been directed at topical "Mission Areas" [8] that have continued to evolve. Further organizational structure includes headquarters ...
The research center hosts a wide variety of wildlife. The center is a federal research facility that supports programs in the United States Department of the Interior. The USGS Biological Resources Division, of which the Center is a part, works with others to provide the information needed to manage the United States' biological resources.
U.S. Geological Survey National Center visitor entrance in 2011 The approximately 1,000,000 sq. ft., 1,200 foot long U.S. Geological Survey National Center building sits on a 105-acre site and is divided into three main sections—the agency administration offices, the laboratories, and the map reproduction area.
The Helderberg Group is a geologic group that outcrops in the State New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia. It also is present subsurface in Ohio and the Canadian Providence of Ontario It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Devonian and Late Silurian period .
The Nanjemoy Formation is a geologic formation pertaining to both the Wilcox Group and the Pamunkey Group of the eastern United States, stretching across the states of Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
The Chesapeake Group is a geologic group in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and North Carolina. [1] [2] [3] It preserves mainly marine fossils dating back to the Late Oligocene through the Pliocene epochs of the Neogene period. [4] This group contains one of the best studied fossil record of Neogene oceans in the world.
The logo of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.
The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a United States Geological Survey data management, systems development, and research field center It serves as the national archive of remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface acquired by civilian satellites and aircraft.