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A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model.Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outcrops and landforms, to intrusive methods, such as hand augering and machine-driven boreholes, to the use of geophysical techniques and remote sensing ...
Website. www.usgs.gov. 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 Geological Survey was founded in 1835 by the Board of Ordnance as the Geological Survey of Great Britain, under directorship of Henry De la Beche. This was the world's first national geological survey. It remained a branch of the Ordnance Survey for many years.
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) Association of Applied Geochemists. Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society. Geochemical Society. International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment. International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) International Association of Cryospheric Sciences.
A geologic map or geological map is a special-purpose map made to show various geological features. Rock units or geologic strata are shown by color or symbols. Bedding planes and structural features such as faults, folds, are shown with strike and dip or trend and plunge symbols which give three-dimensional orientations features.
The U.S. Geological Survey Library has become one of the largest geoscience libraries in the world. Materials within the library system include books and maps dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as a nearly complete set of the various State Geological Survey publications.
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a scientific agency of India.It was founded in 1851, as a Government of India organization under the Ministry of Mines, one of the oldest of such organisations in the world and the second oldest survey in India after the Survey of India (founded in 1767), for conducting geological surveys and studies of India, and also as the prime provider of basic ...
J. Willis Ambrose (1911–1974), first President of Geological Association of Canada. Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Scottish structural geologist, influential in theory of faulting. Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American explorer and naturalist; Mongolian dinosaurs. Mary Anning (1799–1847), English pioneer fossil collector.