In response to a need for information on potential domestic sources of critical minerals, the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) was established to identify and prioritize areas for acquisition of new geologic mapping, geophysical data, and elevation data to improve our knowledge of the geologic framework of the United States. Phase 1 of Earth MRI concentrated on those geologic terranes favorable for hosting the rare earth elements (REEs). Phase 2 continued to address the REEs and also identified focus areas for potential domestic sources of 10 more of the 35 critical minerals on the U.S. critical minerals list (aluminum, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, platinum-group elements, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten). This report describes the methodology, data sources, and summary results for mineral systems that host these 11 critical minerals in the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico; Alaska is covered in a separate report. The mineral systems framework adopted for this study links critical mineral commodities to families of genetically related mineral deposit types. The mineral systems approach is an efficient approach, providing a simultaneous evaluation of geologic terranes through aggregation of genetically related mineral deposit types that are much larger than individual ore deposits. Geologic, geochemical, topographic, and geophysical mapping provided by Earth MRI will document geologic features that reflect the extent of individual mineral systems and provide information about critical mineral deposits that may not have been recognized previously.
Each critical mineral commodity is discussed in terms of importance to the Nation’s economy, modes of occurrence, mineral systems, and deposit types along with maps and tables listing examples of focus areas for each critical mineral. Important mineral systems for these critical minerals include chemical weathering systems for aluminum (bauxite); placer systems for titanium and REEs; metamorphic systems for graphite; mafic magmatic systems for platinum-group elements and cobalt; lacustrine evaporite and porphyry tin systems for lithium; and copper-molybdenum-gold (Cu-Mo-Au) systems for tungsten. REEs occur in many different mineral systems. Focus areas were developed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with scientists from State geological surveys and other institutions. This first national-scale compilation of focus areas represents an initial step in addressing the Nation’s critical mineral needs by screening areas for acquisition of new data to provide the geologic framework necessary for identifying domestic sources of critical minerals.
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Building on a geology-based assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable petroleum resources in the Eagle Ford Group in south Texas, the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated the required water and proppant demands and formation water production volumes associated with possible future development of these petroleum resources. The results of the water and proppant assessment are presented here, along with related drilling information and relevant water budget volumes for the region.
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(Re)insurance companies rely on earthquake risk models to estimate the frequency and severity of their potential financial losses. To protect themselves, they sometimes use parametric risk transfer solutions, which are derivative-form agreements that provide compensation as a function of routine measurable earthquake characteristics. These mechanisms typically remain in force for one to three years and assume seismic conditions—and our estimates of them—remain unchanged during this period. However, seismic risk estimates evolve continuously due to changes in nearby seismicity, sudden ruptures, slower redistributions of stress, or improvements in our own understanding of these phenomena. As a consequence, the likelihood of some loss-causing events might decrease and make the protection superfluous (wasted money), or, more problematically, it might increase and render the protection insufficient (increased risk). This paper explores the construction of parametric earthquake risk transfer mechanisms that adapt efficiently (i.e., near real-time) to changes in seismicity throughout the lifetime of the transaction. The mechanism proposes the periodic adjustment of the payment conditions of the parametric agreement in harmony with the evolving probabilities of event occurrence. This, we hypothesize, may result in a more efficient allocation of premiums that reflects the changing nature of seismic risk. To build the proposed dynamic risk transfer mechanism, we first employ one of the earthquake models commonly used in the (re)insurance industry to assess the risk of a portfolio of assets. The modeling exercise yields the expected frequency distribution of loss, which a standard (re)insurance transaction would typically consider constant for the entire coverage period. Here, we use these results simply as a baseline for the initial time step of reference. Next, we construct a retrospective update loop, which consists of two parts: (1) we obtain the earthquake occurrence rate conditions at a previous time step taking into account the changes in seismicity observed in the interim period; and (2) we use the modeled losses and adjusted frequencies at the new time step to build a parametric risk transfer solution. This parametric solution remains in force until it is updated at the next iteration. We also track the effects on the efficiency of the risk transfer solution and its premium if these continuous updates were not implemented.
We apply the proposed mechanism to California and find that changes in seismicity can cause swings in the frequency of parametric payments (which is related to the premium paid for the cover) in average of 16% and up to 36% in any three-year period from 1986 to 2020. We also find that avoiding an update of the parametric solution on a yearly basis to match the new risk profile can decrease the efficiency of the cover (measured as the relative contribution to the average annual loss of the events covered) in the same time period by 13% on average and up to 35%.
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Chaudhary and Oli (2020) recently developed a framework to appraise the quality of PVAs based on the presence of essential background, model, and analysis components. They evaluated 160 published PVAs and reported a decline in the quality of PVAs over time (1990−2017). We agree PVA studies should report unambiguous descriptions of their essential components (Table 1 in Chaudhary and Oli) and explicitly state the model's biological and statistical assumptions. The need for increased transparency in PVAs is evident. Morrison et al. (2016) reported that only 50% of PVAs published in peer-reviewed and gray literature were both reproducible and repeatable. Further, in an examination of 67 studies that used matrix population models (widely used in PVAs), Kendall et al. (2019) reported that models frequently contained misspecification errors. Given the rapid advancement of simulation techniques, updated guidance for PVA construction is warranted.
However, we believe the essential PVA components identified by Chaudhary and Oli contain a critical omission: the decision context in which the PVA was created and its usefulness in that context. Quality and utility are not mutually exclusive; however, some models that do not meet idealized quality standards might still be valuable because they are useful and represent the best available science for a given decision context (hereafter, decision-support models). The definition of quality for decision-support models should be different than models developed for the purpose of learning (hereafter, heuristic models) and should incorporate how useful the model was, despite information gaps. We further argue that assessment questions should be used prospectively to guide modeling projects, rather than for retrospective comparison of model quality.
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Anadromous Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. are semelparous, and resource subsidies from spawning adult salmon (marine-derived nutrients [MDN]) benefit juvenile salmonids while they rear in freshwater. However, it is unclear if juvenile salmon populations respond predictably to the abundance of spawning salmon at the watershed scale. To address whether hypothesized benefits to rearing juveniles scale up to population and watershed scales, we examined juvenile Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch and Chinook Salmon O. tshawytscha growth, fork length, condition, and abundance as a function of MDN assimilation throughout the Unalakleet and North rivers in western Alaska. Additionally, a mark–recapture experiment provided abundance estimates of Coho Salmon smolts emigrating from these two rivers. Prior to spawning, residual MDN from past years offered little advantage to juvenile salmon. However, after the arrival of spawning adults, juveniles demonstrated a positive relationship between MDN and fish size, growth, and condition in fall and winter. Out-migrating smolts also benefitted from MDN resources via increased size and growth rates. Coho Salmon smolt abundance was unrelated to total spawner biomass, but a positive relationship between MDN assimilation and smolt abundance suggested a possible effect on overwinter survival. Furthermore, similar trends in spawner biomass and the abundance of age-1 smolts suggested that age at smolting was influenced by MDN. These relationships support the hypothesis that salmon spawner abundance during Coho and Chinook Salmon rearing is an important factor in the juvenile productivity of these species.
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Particles are forward tracked from locations within plumes defined by surfaces of equal concentration. Particles move toward ultimate well capture and discharge to the general head and drain boundaries representing natural receptors in the models. Because rates of advection within coarse-grained sediments typically exceed 0.1 foot per day, mechanisms of dispersion and diffusion were assumed to be negligible. Resulting particle pathlines are influenced by hydrogeologic framework features and the interplay of nearby hydrologic stresses. Simulated hydrologic effects include cones of depression near pumping wells and water-table mounding near points of treated water recharge; however, remedial pumping amounts are balanced by treated-water return, and net effects at distant regional boundaries, including freshwater/saltwater interfaces, are minor.
Once a steady-state model was developed and calibrated, eight hypothetical remedial scenarios were evaluated to hydraulically contain the volatile organic-compound plumes. Specifically, the remedial scenarios were optimized to achieve full containment by altering the pumping-well locations, adjusting the pumping rates, and adjusting the discharge locations and rates. Based on the results, total hypothetical extraction rates varied from about 5,462 gallons per minute during an anticipated near-future condition to about 13,340 gallons per minute during full hydraulic containment of all site-related compounds identified by the New York State standards, criteria, and guidance for environmental investigations and cleanup. Targeting of high-concentration zones of the plume increases the total amount of remedial pumpage necessary to capture all parts of the plume but may decrease the total amount of time necessary to operate a remedial system. Simulated time frames of advective transport ranged from about 12 years to capture zones with elevated concentrations of volatile organic compounds (mean particle travel time plus the standard deviation of travel time) to more than 100 years to capture all zones.
Groundwater-flow model analysis indicates that all the optimal plume-containment scenarios would have negligible effects on streams and the saltwater-freshwater interface along the south shore of Long Island. Massapequa, Bellmore, Seaman, and Seaford Creeks are represented by using MODFLOW drain-boundary conditions. Saltwater-freshwater interfaces are represented by using MODFLOW general head-boundary conditions where the Magothy aquifer discharges upward into saline groundwater across the Gardiners clay confining unit and the Lloyd aquifer discharges upward into saline groundwater across the Raritan confining unit.
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We applied compound-specific sulfur isotope analysis (CSSIA) to organic matter (OM) extracted from ancient and immature organic-rich rocks from the Cretaceous Ghareb (Shefela Basin locality, Israel) and Miocene Monterey (Naples Beach locality, California, USA) Formations. Large variations in the δ34S values of different organosulfur compounds (OSCs), that reach up to 28‰ and 36‰, were observed in the Ghareb and Monterey samples, respectively. Additionally, some common OSCs in both locations showed consistent 34S trends relative to each other. The consistent enrichment in 34S of C35 hopane thiophene relative to iC20 thiophene in the studied sections probably resulted from differences in the timing of OM sulfurization. Reactive organic precursors quickly consume the most 34S-depleted reduced S, while less reactive species incorporate the heavier residual S at a later time. Despite the differences in the depositional environments, ages, and the initial δ34S values of the reduced S (represented by the δ34S of pyrite) between the Ghareb and the Monterey Formations, the sulfurization order of common organic compounds seems to be similar. All of the δ34S values of OSCs are 34S enriched relative to that of the coexisting pyrite with the exception of the C25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) thiophene in several samples from the Monterey Formation. The existence of 34S-depleted sulfurized HBI may point to OM sulfurization that occurred at or near the sediment-water interface during the deposition of the Monterey. Moreover, the δ34S of steroid sulfides shows an inverse trend with the pristane/phytane ratio, which may indicate that the sulfurization mechanism of these OSCs are affected by redox conditions. Further investigation of CSSI values in immature rocks from other basins may help constrain the OM sulfurization process, timescale, and depositional conditions and their possible use as paleoenvironmental proxies.
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