Sites notified for their biological interest are known as Biological SSSIs, and those notified for geological or physiographic interest are Geological SSSIs.

Geological SSSIs fall into two types, having different conservation priorities:

It includes a National Nature Reserve ( NNR ), 19 SSSIs ( Some subdivided in the list of sites below ), 4 GCR sites of International geological importance plus a further 6 GCR sites, 13 Regionally Important Geological Sites ( RIGS ), 5 Local Nature Reserves ( LNRs ), 7 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust ( LRWT ) nature reserves, and 1 Woodland Trust woodland.

These are inexpensive and available from the U. S. Geological Society, Washington 25, D. C..

For example, the 1: 24, 000 scale topographic maps of the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) are a standard as compared to the 1: 50, 000 scale Canadian maps.

Boundaries and names are established by the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

* Geological formations of limestone are among the best petroleum reservoirs ;

In 2003, a population model was released by the U. S. Geological Survey that predicted an extremely grave situation confronting the manatee in both the Southwest and Atlantic regions where the vast majority of manatees are found.

Geological evidence shows that at around 6100 BC a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slides hit Shetland, ( as well as the rest of the east coast of Scotland ), and may have created a wave of up to high in the voes where modern populations are highest.

According to the U. S. Department of the Interior and the U. S. Geological Survey, " there are eight named islands in the lake that have never been totally submerged during historic time.

Geological features on Phobos are named after astronomers who studied Phobos and people and places from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

The most prominent institutions for science and engineering in Otaniemi are the Finnish Innovation Center, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Micronova Center of Micro and Nanotechnology, the KCL pulp and paper research center, the CSC IT Center for Scientific Computing, the Geological Survey of Finland ( GTK ), and the National Bureau of Measures ( MIKES ).

Otaniemi is home to many of Finland's research and development organizations: The most prominent institutions for science and engineering in Otaniemi are the Finnish Innovation Center, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Micronova Center of Micro and Nanotechnology, the KCL pulp and paper research center, the CSC IT Center for Scientific Computing, the Geological Survey of Finland ( GTK ), and the National Bureau of Measures ( MIKES ).

There are also four Geological Conservation Review sites.

There are more than 100 natural sandstone arches in the Red River Gorge Geological Area.

Sections of the Missouri River floodplain taken by the United States Geological Survey show a great variety of material of varying coarseness, the stream bed having been scoured at one place and filled at another by currents and floods of varying swiftness, so that sometimes the deposits are of coarse gravel, sometimes of fine sand or of fine silt.

Two of the best known sections of the escarpment in Kentucky are the Red River Gorge Geological Area and the Natural Bridge State Park in the north-central portion of the Daniel Boone National Forest.

However, residences are still maintained in these communities, and they are listed as populated places by the U. S. Geological Survey.

No movement has been recorded by the U. S. Geological Survey, and the faults are considered inactive.

According to the United States Geological Survey, variant names are Dundee and New Aberdeen.

The South Texas Naval air station, in a partnership with the U. S. Geological Survey's Texas Gulf Coast Field Research Station, the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, Texas A & M-Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend Ambassadors, will offer an open field with artificial burrows for the burrowing owls, which are anticipated to stay there over the winter, beginning in October.

These are geomagnetic observatories, typically part of a national Geological Survey, for example the British Geological Survey's Eskdalemuir Observatory.

* Geological surveys to determine whether land or water sources are polluted, how firm the ground is at a potential building site, etc.

Quality of water in selected wells, Harrison County, Mississippi, 1997-2005 Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1287.

Shallow ground-water quality of selected land-use / aquifer settings in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado and Nebraska, 1993-95 Geological Survey Water-resources Investigations Report 97-4229.

A selected bibliography on the hydrology of the Platte River Basin in Nebraska through 1991 Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-496.

Environmental geochemical studies of selected mineral deposits in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska Geological Survey Professional Paper 1619.

Geological Survey of India is actively engaged in the field of glacier regimes studies involving glacier mass balance, glacier flow, hydrometry, suspended-sediment transport, microclimatic parameters, secular movement and geomorophology of selected representative glaciers in the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh.

The present edition of crystal data was written by J.D.H. Donnay, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ( Part 2 ) ) and Werner Nowacki, University of Berne, Switzerland ( Part 1 ) ) with the collaboration of Gabrielle Donnay, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C..

This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.

Its length as measured by the United States Geological Survey is, and by steamboat measurement,.

* Excerpt on the geology of Athens from: A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean by Michael and Reynold Higgins, Cornell University Press, 1996

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Beaux demonstrated accuracy and patience as a scientific illustrator, creating drawings of fossils for Edward Drinker Cope, for a multi-volume report sponsored by the U. S. Geological Survey.

" Geological remains from the distant past can, and should, be explained by reference to geological processes now in operation and thus directly observable.

* A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean by Michael and Reynold Higgins, Cornell University Press, 1996

Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

He was employed by the Geological Survey of Canada for fifteen years, where he came into his own as one of the most significant linguists in North America, the other being Leonard Bloomfield.

Boas kept working to secure a stable appointment for his student, and by his recommendation Sapir ended up being hired by the Canadian Geological Survey, who wanted him lead the institutionalization of anthropology in Canada.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a part of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

* Earthcache: A type of virtual-cache which is maintained by the Geological Society of America.

The table of geologic time spans presented here agrees with the dates and nomenclature set forth by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, and uses the standard color codes of the United States Geological Survey.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

The 1, 290 original drawings made for the work were purchased by the Earl, and presented by him to the Geological Society of London.

During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.