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- initialism geology, US Initialism of United States Geological Survey.
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I also want to make sure that the USGS is acknowledged here.
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Update (LOIRP) 20 January 2009 - NASA Watch 2009
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USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.
Oil shortage (update) Not a sheep 2009
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Archive of public domain USGS photos in torrent form
Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005
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You are looking at an image we have from the USGS, which is our drought monitoring map.
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The epicenter of today's quake was about 15.2 miles 24.4 kilometers deep, according to the USGS, which is near enough to the surface to set off a tsunami.
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It seem a bit odd that the USGS is studying these animals, but the Pacific walrus is one of four marine mammal species managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the USGS is the research arm of the DOI, according the USGS website.
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Interior Department spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff, however, called the USGS an "independent science agency" within the department.
D Mag - News 2010
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Interior Department spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff, however, called the USGS an "independent science agency" within the department.
BLACK ENTERPRISE Associated Press 2010
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Research by the USGS was the first to show that every ice front on the southern section of the peninsula has been retreating from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes since
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The largest quake recorded by the USGS was a magnitude-6. 9 one.
The Christian Post RSS Feed Aaron J. Leichman 2010
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