United States Geological Survey
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title:
United States Geological Survey
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of extraterrestrial planets and moons based on data from U.S. space probes. The sole scientific agency of the U.
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Scientific agency of the US government
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey
date created:
2002-12-25T01:17:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T19:17:33Z
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