MGS Publications

The purpose of this project is to prepare an updated map of potential landslide hazards for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The intent is to provide the public, local government and local and...

This map also contains brittle fracture data as part of the GIS files.

This map is a progress report of bedrock geologic mapping currently underway in the Billerica...

Geologic carbon sequestration, defined as the permanent storage of CO2 in underground geologic reservoirs, is emerging as an important strategy towards mitigation of increasing accumulation of CO2...

Well Inventories of selected 7.5' quadrangles consist of ESRI ArcView Project files (*.apr), associated ESRI shapefiles and scanned boring logs compiled from several sources. Each *. apr file...

The culmination of over 50 years of mapping and geologic investigation by U-Mass professor Peter Robinson and his students, this map details the structure and stratigraphy of the Oliverean gneiss...

Fracture Characterization Map is included as sheets 2 and 3. Water Resources data included as sheet 4.

GIS and metadata forthcoming

Well Inventories consist of ESRI ArcView Project files (*.apr), associated ESRI shapefiles and scanned boring logs compiled from several sources.   Each *. apr file displays borehole locations,...

This preliminary version of the Fracture Characterization Map of the Hudson Quadrangle (Kopera, 2006) has been removed pending the future release of an updated version of the underlying bedrock...

This map shows the stacked vertical distribution of nonlithified surficial earth materials within the Marlborough quadrangle. This series of maps shows these deposits as they are vertically...

Interim digital compilation of the published surficial geology of the Assawompsett Pond, Blue Hills, Bridgewater, Brockton, Duxbury, Hanover, Scituate, Norwood, Taunton, and Whitman 7.5'...

Since 2006, the USGS has been releasing compilations of updated surficial geology compilations for Massachusetts under OFR2006-1260 (http://pubs.usgs....

Undergoing Editing and Review. Please contact sbmabee[at]geo[dot]umass[dot]edu for latest version.

On November 13th and 14th, 2011, residents and business owners in the area of Wapping Road in Deerfield, Massachusetts, began to notice light-gray, clay-rich mud appearing in the streams and...

Maps in Progress are not distributed to the public. If you would like to see a copy of this map, please contact Joseph Kopera at jkopera[at]geo[dot]geo[dot]umass[dot]edu

Bedrock Geologic Map contains brittle fracture data

Mapping still in progress. For interim fracture database, please contact Joe Kopera

MGS Well inventories are a database of digitized water well data, boring logs, and images of well completion reports for a given quadrangle compiled into an ArcView 3.x project file.  Modeled...

The University of Massachusetts Department of Geosciences and Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist were asked by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments to make an assessment of the...

This preliminary version of the Bedrock Map of the Ayer Quadrangle (Kopera, 2006) has been removed pending the release of an updated version in the near future. The above version should be...

Well Inventories consist of ESRI ArcView Project files (*.apr), associated ESRI shapefiles and scanned boring logs compiled from several sources.   Each *. apr file displays borehole locations,...

Well Inventories consist of ESRI ArcView Project files (*.apr), associated ESRI shapefiles and scanned boring logs compiled from several sources.   Each *. apr file displays borehole locations,...