Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team
USGS 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology Laboratory
The laboratory and staff are involved in SIR-funded work on 16 USGS projects and three Outside Funding Agency (OFA) projects at the present time:
»National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) funded projects: Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP), BALANCE, Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, Geologic Framework of Rio Grande, Central Colorado Assessment, San Luis Valley, Big Bend
»Mineral Resources Program-funded
projects: Integrated Geological, Geochemical, and Geophysical Studies
of Mineral Deposits, Headwaters,
Metallogenic Evolution, Metallogeny of the Great Basin,
Alaska
Mineral Resources Assessment Project II (AMRAPII)
»Energy Resources Program-funded projects: New Gulf Coast Framework, Afghanistan Coal
»OFA-funded projects throughout the world: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, China, Peru, Pisco Basin and India