CD ROMS from the US Department of the Interior

DICTIONARY OF MINING, MINERAL AND RELATED TERMS

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UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH

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HYDRO-CLIMATIC DATA NETWORK: STREAMFLOW DATA SET, 1874-1988

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STATE WATER DATA REPORT

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U.S. Geological Survey 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

Each year, the US. Geological Survey (USGS) publishes hydrologic records for each State in a publication series entitled "U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Reports". The State Water-Data Reports (SWDR) are prepared by District and Subdistrict Offices throughout the Nation and are published in quantities of 200 to 600 per volume and distributed to State agencies, cooperators, and others as appropriate. The number of volumes range from 1 to 7 per State, resulting in a total of 73 for the 1990 water-year.

This CD is the first attempt to distribute the hydrologic records in electronic form for the entire Nation, Puerto Rico, and Trust Territories. With the exception of Alaska (vol. AK-90-1), Arizona (vol. AZ-90-1), Georgia (vol. GA-90-1), and Hawaii (vol. HI-90-2), which were not available at press time, all other volumes are included herein. In addition, volumes from selected States for water-years 1987 through 1989 are included.

The second CD represents the second consecutive year's attempt to replicate the hydrologic records in electronic form for the entire Nation, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. In 1991, the first replication consisted of hydrologic records for water year 1990, with records for selected States for water years 1987-1989. The current CD-ROM contains both water years 1990 and 1991 for most State report volumes. Volumes unavailable for inclusion on this CD-ROM for either of these 2 years are:

  • Arizona (v. AZ-90-1)
  • Hawaii (v. HI-90-2, HI-91-1, HI-91-2)
  • Minnesota (v. MN-91-1, MN-91-2) ***
  • Pennsylvania (v. PA-91-1)

The third CD represents the third consecutive year's attempt to replicate the hydrologic records in electronic form for the entire Nation, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. In 1991, the first replication consisted of hydrologic records for water year 1990, with records for selected States for water years 1987-1989. The second CD-ROM contained both water years 1990 and 1991. The current CD contains the records for water years 1991, 1992, and 1992 for most State report volumes. Volumes unavailable for inclusion on this CD-ROM for any of these 3 years are:

  • Arizona (v. AZ-90-1)
  • Hawaii(v. HI-90-2, HI-91-2, HI-92-2)
  • Minnesota (v. MN-91-1, MN-91-2, MN-92-1, MN-92-2)
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  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM compatible.
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  • Documentation: manual

DATA, SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN GEOLOGY: VIRGINIA

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This is the first in what is hoped to become a series of educational and research discs. This disc is the result of a collaboration between USGS and Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA. The area of coverage is centered on the state of Virginia; the data ranges in resolution from digital orthophoto quads re-sampled to 2 meter resolution to isopleths of simple Bouguer anomaly taken from a 1:500,000 map with contour intervals of 5 milligals. Data types include seismic sections, geologic maps, vector and icon overlays, 3-dimensional displays and film loops, color imagery of geologic features, GLORIA sonar imagery of the EEZ, Landsat TM imagery, aerial photograph, bathymetry and topography. Some of the photographs are arranged into a "Photographic Field Trip of Virginia". Overlays on the geologic, gravity, and deposit maps include railroads, roads, dikes, faults, quads, streams, water bodies, and political boundaries. A history of the Appalachian mountains and the orogenies that formed them is included on the disc as well as descriptions of lowland sedimentary formations.

All of the programs used to create the disc are on the disc and instructions on the use of the mapping and image processing systems are included in the directory DOC\TUTORIAL. Moreover, the various file types found on this disc are described in the directory DOC in files of extension type FXT.
For example, the file BIN.FXT describes the '.BIN' files and so on. To view these files and most of the other data on the disc, you can use the menu system provided.

  • File format: Numerous
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM compatible.
  • Paper copy: NA
  • Access by: Software on disc.
  • Documentation: On Disc

US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COAL QUALITY DATABASE: Version 1.3

I 19.76:94-205/CD

US Geological Survey (1994)

Since the middle 1970's, the US. Geological Survey (USGS) has maintained a coal quality database of nation-wide scope. Many of these data have been published in various USGS Open-File Reports or other publications. The present CD-ROM reports coal quality data for coal samples that represent complete-bed thicknesses at various localities.

  • File Format: dBase III, but the documentation claims that the files are organized so that only the included software can use them. By using the software, files may be exported in dBase, flat ASCII, delimited ASCII, or fixed-field for use on other computing platforms.
  • Equipment/requirements: DOS
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  • Access by: Included GSSEARCH software.
  • Documentation: Documentation on disc, but not printed

SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN COASTAL EROSION STUDY Geographic display and Digital Data

I 19.76:94-255/CD

US Geological Survey (1994)

The Southern Lake Michigan Coastal Erosion Study was initiated in 1988 to provide a better understanding of the timing, causes, and effects of the high lake levels of 1985-86 that resulted in extensive damage along the Lake's shoreline. The program was divided into three parts or components: framework, lake level, and processes.

Field work for the three parts of the study is currently complete. All data have been reduced, compiled, and synthesized for submission to the International Association of Great Lakes Research for publication as a Summary Volume. This disc is a repository for all digital data collected during this study and is the technical reference for the more formal Summary Volume. The overview provided on the CD is the pre-press version of the paper in the Summary Volume (Folger, et al, 1994).

  • File format: Mostly Arc/Info export file, ASCII flat file, but also an AUTOCAD dxf file and many tiff and pcx files.
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
  • Access by: Software is provided for viewing the data.
  • Documentation: On Disc

WATERSHED BOUNDARIES AND DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL OF OKLAHOMA DERIVED FROM 1:100,000-SCALE DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

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Contains watershed boundaries for Oklahoma, a digital elevation model, and other data sets derived from the digital elevation model. The model was produced using the ANUDEM software package... Additional data sets include flow-direction, flow-accumulation, and shaded-relief grids.

  • File Format:Each data set is provided in two formats, a public-domain format and ARC/INFO (Ver.7.0.2) format. Graphic images are in GIF files.
  • Equipment requirements: Compatible with UNIX, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and VAX.
  • Access by: Software on disc.
  • Documentation: Each directory contains an "a_readme.1st" file describing the directory contents. "General.doc" file in the /document subdirectory describes the creation of the data sets in general terms.

ARCHIVE OF THE QMIPS SIDESCAN SONAR AND NAVIGATION FIELD DATA COLLECTED ABOARD R/V CAPE HENLOPEN 24-30 MAY 1994

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DATA BASE FOR A NATIONAL MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF UNDISCOVERED DEPOSITS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD AND ZINC IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES

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DIGITAL ATLAS OF OKLAHOMA (ARCVIEW AND TRANSFER FORMATS)

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APSRS - AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMARY RECORD SYSTEM

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Interior Department, Geological Survey.(aug 1994)
Item: 621-J 95-009-E

This is a database of photographs taken by various governmnet agencies. Each photography constitutes a record. Each record contains the following fields

  • The Agency
  • Location
  • Date
  • Project Code
  • Scale
  • Focal Length
  • Film Type
  • Sensor Class
  • % Cloud Cover
  • % Quad Coverage
  • Remarks.
The database can be searched by any of these fields. As no documentation is provided the intended use of the system is unknown.
  • File format: Unknown
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS.
  • Paper Copy: NA
  • Access by: Software is Provided
  • Documentation: None

US GEODATA - CARTOGRAPHIC CATALOG

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Interior Department, Geological Survey

The Cartographic Catalog (CC) is an information tool for determining the availability of maps, charts, globes, atlases, aerial photographs and images, digital map data, and earth science related books. studies, indexes, reports, and software programs. The CC CD-ROM contains 27,937 records referencing data that describe the holdings of contributors from Federal, State, and local government agencies, universities, and private industry.

Each CC record can contain up to 23 descriptive fields; not all fields in all records contain data. Fields that do not contain data are displayed or printed with blanks and the field name in the "Display all fields" mask. Query operations can only be performed on the data fields that have been indexed.

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  • Access by: The Install programs have been copied to a floppy disk that is in the CD Guides drawer at the MADD Reference Desk.
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CONTERMINOUS U.S. AVHRR - Companion Disc

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Interior Department, USGS, National Mapping Division

The disc contains several types of raster and vector data designed to be used with the USGS annual Conterminous U.S. AVHRR Biweekly Composites CD series. The readme.1st text file in the root directory should be reviewed before assessing data files stored on this disc. Each directory also has a readme file. CARTOG directory contains both raster and vector USGS Digital Line Graph Stand and county boundaries.
HYDRO directory contains raster and vector USGS Digital Line Graph water bodies and streams and USGS Water Resources Division's Hydrologic Units.
CLIMATE directory contains both raster and vector National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. climatic divisions.
ECOLOGIC directory contains raster and vector Environmental Protection Agency's ecoregions and Soil Conservation Service's land resource areas and regions.
TERRAIN directory contains 30 arc-second raster digital elevation model data and shaded relief images derived from them.
SATELITE directory contains an example of the 10-bank AVHRR biweekly composites that are mosaicked and published as part of the annual series by the USGS.

  • File format: Raster image files each have a 512 byte header record and are provided with a label file compatible with the IMDISP PC-based image display software developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. All vector files are in the USGS Digital Line Graph Optional format.
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DIGITAL LINE GRAPH (DLG) DATA, D56/CD

I 19.120:D 56/area(area number)[/option]

Interior Department, Geological Survey.

These CD-ROMs are set of regional discs in two formats, the standard and the option containing hydrography and transportation DLG data. The DLG data files derived from the 1:100,000- scale maps contain selected base categories of cartographic data in digital form; these data categories do not necessarily correspond to the traditional feature separates associated with the maps. The following categories are included in current 1:100,000 DLG files:

  • Hydrography - - This category of data describes combined hydrography consisting of all flowing water, standing water, and wetlands.
  • Transportation - - This category of data includes major transportation systems collected in three separate subcategorize labeled: 
  1. roads and trails,
  2. railroads, and
  3. pipelines,transmission lines, and miscellaneous transportation.
  • File format: The data are stored in a compressed format. The software to select the layers and quadrangles, decompress the data, and write to your hard disk is on the CD.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Paper Copy: NA
  • Access by: Software is provided for extracting data for county and regional areas, but no display software is available.
  • Documentation: On Disc.

GNIS DIGITAL GAZETTEER

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  • Documentation: Some information is in CD Guide drawer at Madd Reference Desk. Manual not received.

GEOMAGNETIC OBSERVATORY DATA 1990 -

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Interior Department, Geological Survey.

The National Geomagnetic Information Center (NGIC) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates a network of 13 geomagnetic observatories located throughout the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico that continuously monitor the Earth's magnetic field. The NGIC maintains these observatories, and serves as a primary source of information on the Earth's magnetic field. The first CD-ROM produced by the NGIC contains values of the geomagnetic field for the years 1985 - 1989. Subsequent CD-ROMs are 1-year CD's for 1990 through 1993, including this CD-ROM for 1993. The 1994 data will be placed on a second 5-year CD-ROM for the years 1990-1994. These values include one-minute vector data from fluxgate magnetometers, total intensity scalar data from proton precession magnetometers, digitally-derived magnetic activity indices (K, sum K, and Ak), mean hourly values (MHVs), and other geomagnetic information.

  • File format: Binary data of some kind, no information on record layout provided.
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
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  • Access by: Software is provided for extracting the data.
  • Documentation: Readme file on disk.

CONTERMINOUS U.S. AVHRR - Biweekly Composites

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The 1994 Conterminous U.S. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Biweekly Composites have been developed as a set of four CD-ROMs to provide a time-series of satellite imagery. The readme.1st text file should be reviewed before using the images on the disc. Disc directories are set up by the type of data described below.
AVHRR directory contains the five channels of AVHRR data which were derived for each weekly period.
NDVI directory contains the maximum normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data value for each pixel in each biweekly period.
GEOM directory contains the solar data, satellite azimuth and zenith angle information, and date information for each pixel.
MISC directory contains the political, climatic divisions and land resource area raster line and polygon images which are useful for display or in digital analysis procedures.
DEMO directory contains a batch job that runs under DOS and uses the display program IMDISP. To initiate, type "demo" at the D:\DEMO\: prompt. SOFTWARE directory contains program to allow the PC-DOS user to display and interact with the digital images on the CD.

  • File format: Time series satellite images and text files. Files in each IMAGES subdirectory are actual raster images in byte format. Label files and image display software developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. All vector files are in the USGS Digital Line Graph Optional format.
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  • Access: Ask at MADD Reference Desk.
  • Documentation: Filed in CD-ROM Guide drawer at MADD Reference Desk.

GEOLOGY OF NEVADA: A Digital Representation of the 1978 Geologic Map of Nevada.

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US. Geological Survey 1991

U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-2: This contains digital representation of the Geologic Map of Nevada, 1978, compiled by John H. Stewart and John E. Carlson of the USGS. The original map was published at a scale of 1:500,000 and was split at latitude 29 degrees N into two sheets. These data sets are designed for use by geographic information system (GIS) users for spatial analysis applications, but they should be useful for computer-aided mapping applications as well. Overlays on the geologic map include water bodies, roads, railroads, streams, and political boundaries. A key to the formations provides information about their ages and names.

  • File Format: ASCII (10 MB); USGS Digital line Graph-3 (DLG-3) Optional (25 MB); Environmental Systems Research Institute's ARC/INFO version 5.0.1 EXPORT (37 MB).
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible.
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  • Access by: non-DOS users, README.1ST in root directory; C source code available in directory \SOURCE.
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

A GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SEA FLOOR IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BAY, CONSTRUCTED FROM DIGITAL SIDESCAN-SONAR IMAGES, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SEDIMENT SAMPLES.

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U.S. Geological Survey 1992

The objective of this study was to map the texture and morphology of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay. Knowledge of the sediment distribution in coastal areas adjacent to major population centers is useful in many ways. Contaminants have a strong affinity for fine-grained sediments in coastal waters, and maps that define areas of fine sediment help predict where contaminants may have accumulated in the past and where they are likely to accumulate in the future. The maps also yield information about the habitats of important marine organisms that utilize specific sediment types for food and protection. In addition, knowledge of the distribution and thickness of coarse sediments such as sand and gravel is essential to evaluate their potential as a mineral resource. Maps and data included on this disc include: a general map showing sonar lines and geographic boundaries, a bathymetric contour map with contours in feet, a geologic map with general sediment types, a digital mosaic of sonar images showing individual features, a reference map, and sediment texture data.

  • File Format: Two types of data on this disc -- Klein imagery and bathymetry data -- are both in two different formats. The Klein data are in a full-resolution, processed binary file format as well as a compressed format for display purposes. The bathymetry data are in an ASCII file format as well as in a format which is used with the display software.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible.
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  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH SEISMIC LIBRARY-- Preprocessed Seismic Data for 29 Lines in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

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U.S. Geological Survey 1992

This disc contains 29 processed seismic lines from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA), a data base of supporting seismic and well information, and an interactive Display and Report System (DRS) for the information in that data base, and several stand-alone programs for viewing the data. The seismic database may be searched by shot point location, velocity data index, time/velocity/depth, line intersections, line length, number of data records, field recording parameters, and trace number to CDP to shot point conversion tables. The well database may be searched by well location, well drilling histories (when started and when completed), total depth, and depths to 16 selected rock units.

  • File Format: Borland International PARADOX data base management system
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible.
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  • Access by: On disc software Borland International PARADOX data base management system
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

STRATIGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE DATABASES FOR THE UNITED STATES, ITS POSSESSIONS AND TERRITORIES

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U.S. Geological Survey 1992

The Geologic Names Unit (GNU) offices (Denver, Colorado; Menlo Park, California; Reston, Virginia) of the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) are compiling data on nomenclature applied to stratigraphic units used in the United States, its territories, and possessions into a computer-based system. The system is known collectively by the acronym GNULEX (Geologic Names Unit Lexicon). Staff members of GNU review USGS manuscripts early in the publication process for stratigraphic nomenclatural use. This new computer system was designed to provide each staff member with ready access to information published by the geologic profession; it may also serve as a tool for non-staff geologists to use. The nomenclature database may be searched by formation name, state, age, province, and lithology. Searches may also be limited to a particular part of the country (Far West, Midwest, East with Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico).

  • File Format: ASCII format
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible.
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  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

DIGITIZED STRONG-MOTION ACCELEROGRAMS of NORTH and CENTRAL AMERICAN EARTHQUAKES 1933-1986

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U.S. Geological Survey 1992

Many agencies are currently collecting and distributing digital strong-motion accelerograms in North America, and many have done so in the past. With their help, we have amassed a data base of 1,477 mostly three-component station recordings from about 500 earthquakes occurring before 1987. These data represent all of the available North American and Hawaiian records written by ground-level instruments. They have all been copied into a uniform file format, with one file for each component of the recording station: each file includes information about the earthquake and recording station. The complete set of data files is available on a CD-ROM optical disc. The database may be searched by latitude, longitude, date, epicenter distance, depth, peak acceleration, moment magnitude, and general magnitudes.

  • File Format : delimited ASCII.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM compatible.
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  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PHOTOGRAPHIC LIBRARY(Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Geologic Hazards, and Other Phenomena)

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U.S. Geological Survey 1992

A collection of photos from the US Geological Survey Photographic Library in Denver. The disc includes software to search through the photos by type of disaster, or other criteria. It is only .2 percent of the collection in Denver and is distributed for use in geological education. Subjects include avalanches, mudflows, earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and scanning electron micrographs of microfossils and minerals.

  • File Format : 800-1200 points vertically, 256 colors (8-bit), approximately one-half in color and one-half in black and white, using the standard PCX format, and (3) low resolution (thumbnail files) ranging from 150 to 250 points sq.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible.
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  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA GRIDS: Gamma Ray, Gravity, Magnetic, and Topographic Data for the Conterminous United States.

Contains gridded geophysical data in ASCII and PC-DOS binary formats, images generated from the data, software for displaying and analyzing the images, and software for processing potential-field (gravity and magnetic) geophysical data. The gridded data include gamma-ray data (uranium, thorium and potassium channels), Bouguer gravity data, isostatic residual gravity data, aeromagnetic anomalies, topography, and topography with bathymetry.

  • File format: ASCII
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM/compatible; 640 kb RAM, DOS ver.5.0 or later; MSCDEX ver.2.1 or later....
  • Access: contains software for display etc.
  • Documentation: Instructions in CD case.

MODERN AVERAGE GLOBAL SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE

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U.S. Geological Survey 1993

The purpose of this data set is to provide paleoclimate researchers with a tool for estimating the average seasonal variation in sea-surface temperature (SST) throughout the modern world ocean and for estimating the modern monthly and weekly sea-surface temperature at any given oceanic location. It is expected that these data will be compared with temperature estimates derived from geological proxy measures such as faunal census analyses and stable isotopic analyses. The results can then be used to constrain general circulation models of climate change.

The data contained in this data set are derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Multichannel Sea Surface Temperature data (AVHRR MCSST), which are obtainable from the Distributed Active Archive Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. The JPL tapes contain weekly images of SST from October 1981 through December 1990 in nine regions of the world ocean: North Atlantic, Eastern North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Agulhas, Indian, Southeast Pacific, Southwest Pacific, Northeast Pacific, and Northwest Pacific. This data set represents the results of calculations carried out on the NOAA data and also contains the source code of the programs that made the calculations. The objective was to derive the average sea-surface temperature of each month and week throughout the whole 10-year series, meaning, for example, that data from January of each year would be averaged together. The result is 12 monthly and 52 weekly images for each of the oceanic regions. Averaging the images in this way tends to reduce the number of grid cells that lack valid data and to suppress interannual variability.

As ancillary data, the ETOPO5 global gridded elevation and bathymetry data (Edwards, 1989) were interpolated to the resolution of the SST data; the interpolated topographic data are included.

The images are provided in three formats: a modified form of run-length encoding (MRLE), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and Macintosh PICT format.

Also included in the data set are programs that can retrieve seasonal temperature profiles at user-specified locations and that can decompress the data files. These non graphical SST retrieval programs are provided in versions for UNIX, MS-DOS, and Macintosh computers. Graphical browse utilities are included for users of UNIX with the X Window System, 80386-based PC's, and Macintosh computers

  • File format: a modified form of run-length encoding (MRLE), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and Macintosh PICT format.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: Software for access is provided for the IBM and the MAC
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

PHOTOGRAPHS OF HISTORICAL MINING OPERATIONS IN COLORADO AND UTAH FOR THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LIBRARY

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US Geological Survey, 1994

DDS-12 provides literal snapshot views of Colorado and Utah mining operations, generally before 1980. It supports environmental and historical research by providing access to the mostly unpublished photographs in the U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library (USGS) collection in Denver. This material is provided to answer requests from government and historical researchers for visual documentation applicable to their current research.

The photographs were originally taken to support USGS reports on mineral resources in various mining districts or locales. The images provide a thorough search of the Photographic Library card catalog for Colorado and Utah mining operations. The database includes only views cataloged prior to 1990.

  • File format: PCX Files
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: Software for searching and displaying the images is provided for the IBM
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NATIONAL GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND NATURAL RADIOELEMENT DATA BASES

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US Geological Survey, 1995
Item: 621-k 95-006-E

This CD contains two data bases from the US Geological Survey:

Natural Radioelement Data Base contains data on the uranium, thorium, and potassium concentration from over 8500 saples taken from locations all around the country. The data base is organized by states and countries. Within each state, the county, quadrangle, location, sample number, laboratory number, RaeU(ppm), Th(ppm), K(pct), rock description, latitude and longitude, and submitter are given if known. Although a specific reference is not given for each sample, a list of references is included and the submitter's name may be searched to find more complete information about the sample.

National Geochronological Data Base is a group of computerized files established by the U.S. Geological Survey as a means of collecting and organizing published isotopic ages from the United States. For each dated sample reported in a published work, a record containing information on sample location, rock description, analytical data, age, interpretation, and literature citation is constructed. Such information pertinent to the major dating methods (K-Ar, Ar-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, Re-0s, U-Th-Pb, Pb-alpha, and fission track) can be accommodated, singly or in combinations, for each record. As of May 1994, NGDB consists of more than 18,000 records containing over 30,000 individual ages, which is believed to represent approximately one-half the number of ages published for the United States through the year 1991.

  • File format:Comma delinated ascii
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: Software for searching and displaying data is provided for the DOS
  • Documentation: On Disc

CD-ROM ATLAS OF THE DEEPWATER PARTS OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, GULF OF MEXICO, AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA

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U.S. Geological Survey 1993

This CD contains composite digital sidescan-sonar mosaics and geologic maps of the deepwater parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Caribbean Sea. The mosaics provide the first broad-scale view of the sea floor and help us to understand sedimentary processes that have been unknown or poorly known until recently. These images have been published in paper atlases at a scale of 1:500,000 as U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1864-A, B (1987) and I-2054 (1991). The geologic interpretations of the images are expanded from those in I-1864 and I-2054.

The data on this disc consist of the fully processed GLORIA sidescan-sonar images, geologic interpretations of the images, bathymetry overlays for the images, 21 seismic profiles collected in 1978 along the Atlantic continental margin, and a three-dimensional perspective of the entire eastern Atlantic. The GLORIA data on this disc were collected during 10 cruises between 1982 and 1987 for regions where water was more than 400 m deep.

  • File format: Proprietary
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION STUDIES in THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNITED STATES, DATA visualization DISC

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US Geological Survey (1994)

This CD-ROM contains seismic data collected from southern Washington State, ASCII text files of location and velocity information, display software for DOS personal computers, all program source code, and all necessary documentation.

  • File format: Proprietary seismic information and ASCII text files.
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
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  • Access by: On disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

GEOLOGY AND MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES, ROSWELL RESOURCE AREA, NEW MEXICO -- AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PRESENTATION

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US Geological Survey (1995)
Item: 621-K 95-009-E

The CD contains a program illustrating the geology and mineral and energy resources of the Roswell Resource Area, an administrative unit of the U.S. Bureau of Land Managment in east-central New Mexico.

  • File format: SuperCard(A hypercard like display software and programing language)
  • Equipment/system requirements: Macintosh. The disc is in Apple's HFS format
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: On disc Software
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NATIONAL GEOCHEMICAL DATABASE: NATIONAL URANIUM RESOURCE EVALUATION

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US Geological Survey (1994)

Vol. B contains geochemical data for Alaska and the conterminous US collected during the NURE HSSR program. It is a companion to USGS Digital data Series DDS 18A released in 1994. The data are from the National Geochemical Data Base maintained by the USGS. Samples were collected for 104 1x2 degrees or 1x3 degrees quadrangles in Alaska and 319 1x2degrees quadrangles in the conterminous US. Data are included for over 860,000 records representing four predominant sample types: stream sediment, soil, surface water, and ground water.

  • File format: MAPPER display software, data formatted for GSSEARCH
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM/compatible; 640 KB RAM (540 KB free); Math coprocessor; VGA graphics card and color monitor; MS/PC-DOS 5.0 or later; ...
  • Access by: GSSEARCH and MAPPER software on disc; output data in ASCII, dBASE or MAPPER display.
  • Documentation: On disc.

GEOLOGY AND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF COSTA RICA AT 1:500,000 SCALE: A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF MAPS OF THE USGS 1987 FOLIO I-1865

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MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM (MRDS)

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EARTH SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE USGS LIBRARY

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PHOTOGLOSSARY OF MARINE AND CONTINENTAL ICHNOFOSSILS

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US Geological Survey (1994)

621-K 94-0046-E

This CD-ROM contains 328 scanned images from photographs held by the authors, with copies archived by the USGS Photographic Library. The images are intended to acquaint the user and educational community with examples of ichnofossils found in both modern and ancient marine and continental depositional systems.

  • File format: PCX images and text files
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: On disc viewing and searching software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

IMAGES OF KILAUEA EAST RIFT ZONE ERUPTION, 1983-1993

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US Geological Survey (1994)

This CD contains 475 scanned photogrpahs from the USGS Hawaii Observatory Library. Scholars are encouraged to copy these public domain images into their reports or databases to enhance their presentations. High-quality prints and/or slides are available upon request. The images were scanned from 35mm color transparencies and color photographs. Image sizes range from 700 kilobytes to 1.5 megabytes and are stored in a PCX format. Retrievals and displays are made using GEOHW.EXE, a program included on the disc. Data can be displayed in either graphic or text form. All graphics are displayed using SVGA (Standard VGA WILL NOT WORK). The graphic files can be copied to the user's hard disk as PCX or flat files.

  • File format: PCX images and text files
  • Equipment/requirements: DOS (ver. 5.0 or later); 640 Kb RAM; SVGA graphics card (640x480x256 colors); SVGA color monitor.
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: On disc viewing and searching software
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500-MHZ GROUND PENETRATING RADAR DATA COLLECTED AT AN INTENTIONAL SPILL OF TETRACHLOROETHYLENE AT CANADIAN FORCES BASE BORDEN 1991

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US Geological Survey(1994)

This CD-ROM contains (1) 287 full-resolution, geometrically correct ground penetrating radar (GPR) image files; (2) text files documenting this disc, the experiment, and published references; and (3) executable programs and source code to find and display the image and text files.

The radar image files are corrected 500-MHz GPR data collected during a controlled spill of tetrachloroethylene (PCE, a common dry-cleaning solvent). The experiment was conducted in a saturated natural sand aquifer on Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, during July 1991, in an isolated cell that was 9 by 9 m by approximately 3 m deep. Details of the spill and subsequent data reduction are found in Sander (1994). The images are intended to document the movement of the PCE during the data collection period of 0 340 hours after the spill began.

  • File format: All images are .IMG using a 256-color, 8-bit grayscale palette and are approximately .79 megabytes in size
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: GSSEARCH on disc software
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

MONTHLY AVERAGE POLAR SEA-ICE CONCENTRATION

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1995 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OIL AND GAS RESOURCES

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US Geological Survey(1995)

The results of the 1995 National Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources of the United States are presented in an interactive CD-ROM. The interactive nature of the National Assessment CD-ROM allows the user to browse through the documents and presentations, choosing items of interest in user-selectable order. The USGS National Assessment is an unbiased and scientifically based estimate of the quantity of oil and gas yet to be discovered and of the past and future growth in hydrocarbon reserves onshore and in state waters. The National Assessment describes the sources of oil and gas, where they are, what technology may be needed to recover them and at what price, and at what rate they can be withdrawn. Knowledge of oil and gas resources is necessary for strategic planning, evaluating Federal lands, and developing sound economic, energy and environmental policies.

  • File format: Propietary
  • Equipment/system requirements: Windows, Machintosh
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by:Interactive software provided
  • Documentation:On line documentation

PROFILES OF GAMMA-RAY AND MAGNETIC DATA FOR AERIAL SURVEYS OVER PARTS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES....

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US Geological Survey(1995)

Contains images generated from geophysical data, software for displaying and examining profile data from the aerial surveys flown as part of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Program of the US Dept. of Energy. The images included are of gamma-ray data (uranium, thorium, and potassium channels) Bouguer gravity data, isostatic residual gravity data, aeromagnetic anomalies, topography, and topography with bathymetry. This publication contains image data for the conterminous United States and profile data for the conterminous US within the area longitude 108 to 126 degrees W. and latitude 34 to 39 degrees N. The profile data include apparent surface concentrations of potassium, uranium and thorium, the residual magnetic field and the height above the ground.

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NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH SEISMIC LIBRARY - POWDER RIVER BASIN, MONTANA-WYOMING: SURFACE REFLECTIONS AND VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE DATA...

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DIGITAL MAP DATA, TEXT AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES IN SUPPORT OF THE 1995 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF UNITED STATES OIL AND GAS RESOURCES (see I 19.121:30)

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TABULAR DATA, TEXT, AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES IN SUPPORT OF THE 1995 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF UNITED STATES OIL AND GAS RESOURCES

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Contains files in support of the 1995 USGS National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources (DDS-30) which summarizes the results of a 3-year stude\y of the oil and gas resources of the onshore and State waters of the US. The study describes about 560 oil and gas plays in the US--confirmed and hypothetical, conventional and unconventional.

  • File Format: Multiple formats capable of being imported into word processors and spreadsheets.
  • Equipment requirements: Macintosh, or DOS compatible.
  • Access by: Software on disc.
  • Documentation: Readme files on disc and in CD-ROM Guides at Madd Reference Desk. (Appendices not printed)

DATA FROM SELECTED USGS NATIONAL STREAM WATER-QUALITY MONITORING NETWORKS (WQN)

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VOLCANOES OF THE WRANGELL MOUNTAINS AND COOK INLET REGION, ALASKA: SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS

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GREAT BASIN GEOSCIENCE DATA BASE

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DOQ (DIGITAL ORTHOPHOTO QUADRANGLE DATA

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DRG - DIGITAL RASTER GRAPHIC DATA

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A series produced by the USGS of digital raster graphic images of the standard series quadrangle maps of the US, its Trusts and Territories.

  • File Format: Text based menu system (ASCII) and compressed image files using TIFF PackBits software.
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM/compatible (80386 or higher): Windows 3.1; Microsoft extensions; mouse 16MB hard drive 4 MB RAM
  • Access: Two software packages on disc. ArcView Version 1.0 (Windows) and Aerial View Lite software for DOS.
  • Documentation: How2use.txt file and Readme.txt file on disc and filed in CD-ROM Guides drawer at MADD Reference Desk.

CAPITAL CITIES OF THE U.S. - DIGITAL RASTER GRAPHIC DATA

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FDSN EARTHQUAKE DIGITAL DATA

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USGS National Earthquake Information Center

Federation of Digital Seismographic Networks Earthquake Digital Data. Magnitude 5.7 and greater - March-May 1990.

  • File format: SEED Format
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  • Documentation: None discovered.

STATISTICAL COMPENDIUM

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US Bureau of Mines (August 1994)

The Statistical Compendium provides comprehensive long-term mineral statistics on production, consumption, and trade of 34 mineral commodities and is arrayed by commodity, State, and country. These statistics provide information to evaluate historical and emerging trends of the mineral industries. This publication is intended to provide users with official Federal Government minerals statistics with which to perform their analyses. For convenience, the tables which may be downloaded to a computer can be found in the LOTUS directory on this CD.

  • File format: LOTUS 1-2-3
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Access by: TEXTWARE
  • Documentation: On disc, but not printed

MINERALS AND MATERIALS INFORMATION

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US Bureau of Mines

Includes the Statistical Compendium which consists of from the Minerals Yearbooks, 1970-1990. It provides comprehensive long-term mineral statistics on production, consumption, and trade of 34 mineral commodities and is arrayed by commodity, State, and country. These statistics provide information to evaluate historical and emerging trends of the mineral industries. Included along with the Statistical Compendium in this CD-ROM are Mineral Industry Surveys, Minerals Yearbook Annual Reports, publications and articles, Mineral Commodity summaries, Technology news, State Minerals Yearbook, International Minerals Yearbooks, mine safety circulars and reports of investigations.

  • File format: ASCII and LOTUS 1-2-3; Windows 3.1 and 95; PDF
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible, Macintosh
  • Access by: TEXTWARE software; Adobe Acrobat, Quicktime which are resident on disc.
  • Documentation: On disc

SPATIAL DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM/ MINERAL INDUSTRY LOCATION SYSTEM (MAS/MILS)

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Interior, U.S. Bureau of Mines

The Minerals Availability System (MAS) was established by the US Bureau of Mines in 1975 to ascertain the potential supply of selected mineral commodities. The goal of the system is to measure resources available at various prices by inventorying major deposits, characterizing applicable extraction processes, and calculating recoveries and costs. The MAS/MILS database on CD-ROM is the result of the inventory process. The MAS database describes over 5,000 significant mines, deposits and minerals processing plants around the world with operation specific feasibility evaluations. The Mineral Industry Location System (MILS), provides location and identification information on about 22,000 (mostly US) mineral sites. Only selected, non-proprietary portions of the MAS/MILS database are contained on this CD.

This CD requires a great deal of free memory for searching and viewing maps

  • File Format: data and graphics
  • System Requirements: IBM compatible 80386 or higher; 640 Kb RAM, at least 540 Kb free memory; DOS 5.0 or later
  • Access software: GSSEARCH and MAPPER
  • Documentation: on CD.

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR THE MINERALS INDUSTRY

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  • File Format: Data analysis tools
  • System Requirements: IBM compatible 80386 or higher; 640 Kb RAM, at least 540 Kb free memory; DOS 3.3 or later; WordPerfect; LOTUS1-2-3
  • Access & Analysis software: MSMENU,SMINSIM, CES, PREVAL, COALVAL, PCMINSIM, PC/ADIT
  • Documentation: Manual printed and filed in CD-ROMs Guide Drawer at MADD Reference Desk; also on disc in WordPerfect and ASCII formats.

INDICES TO U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MINERAL RESOURCES RECORDS

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1991 NATIONAL SURVEY OF FISHING HUNTING AND WILDLIFE-ASSOCIATED RECREATION

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Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service

This disc contain data collected by the US Bureau of Census from 40,000 potential anglers and hunters and 28,000 potential non consumptive participants. The disc contain three data set: FH-2 the screening data set which contains partial entries from all participants; FH-3 containing the data for the consumptive respondents; and FH-4 containing the non consumptive respondents.
NOTE: The survey is available via World Wide Web at the following address: 1991 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

  • The disc does not come with the software necessary to access the data. We have found the disc practically unusable.
  • File format: ASCII, SAS
  • Equipment/system requirements: IBM Compatible
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: No software available at this time
  • Documentation: Printed in folder; technical documentation on disc.

WATERFOWL MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK

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National Biological Service

Short leaflets on the ecology and management of migratory birds, expecially waterfowl. Information contained in these leaflets highlights important information for developing a conceptual framework for management of wetlands. Chapters include Waterfowl Ecology, Population Management and Wetlands Ecology.

  • File Format: PDF (portable document format) files
  • Equipment/system requirements: 386 or higher IBM pc; 4 mg RAM, Windows 3.1 or later...
  • Access: Windows application; Adobe Acrobat software on CD to be loaded onto hard disk.
  • Documentation: Help is available in the program.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE AUTOMATED RECORDS PROJECT PRE-1908 HOMESTEAD & CASH ENTRY PATENTS AND CADASTRAL SURVEY PLAT INDEX

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Bureau of Land Management

Eventually this state-of-the-art records management system will provide you with computer access to more than 5 million land patents from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern States' repository. At the moment we only have the Michigan Disc, but we should be receiving the remaining discs in the future.

These documents, dating back to the late 1700's, are of great historical value. They are often the only available source offering the identification of legal land descriptions and transfer of property ownership from the U.S. Government to private land owners. The BLM GLO Automated Records System is preserving the quality of these original documents also increasing their availability to the public

  • File format: dBase? (Exportable in dBase, as well as several ASCII formats)
  • Equipment/system requirements: DOS
  • Paper copy: NO
  • Access by: Retrieval software is provided on the disc
  • Documentation: on the disc

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