USGS bulletins, professional papers on Alaska now online

Petroleum News

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys has completed scanning U.S. Geological Survey bulletins and professional papers for Alaska.

The division said Dec. 22 that with this work, “another significant Minerals Data and Information Rescue in Alaska milestone has been achieved,” with “virtually all” USGS bulletins and professional papers relating to Alaska now viewable and retrievable online at the division’s Web site: http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs.jsp.

The collection includes some 700 text reports, with approximately 55,000 pages of text, photographs, data tables and illustrations.

The USGS publications scanning project, the AKGeology bibliography project and the DGGS Database project that runs the DGGS publications Web pages are all components of the federally funded Minerals Data and Information Rescue in Alaska program.

The division said it has begun a similar project that will include Alaska-related USGS open-file reports, miscellaneous field studies, geologic quadrangle maps, miscellaneous investigations/geologic investigations, mineral investigations resources maps and various other short-series USGS publications.