The scientific agency of the United States government responsible for surveying the nation's and, through international collaboration, the world's landforms and water bodies. Used here for the Grand Canyon's measured depth and length and the Great Rift Valley's extent.
Facts
PublisherUnited States Geological Survey
URLhttps://www.usgs.gov
Source Typescientific-agency
Reliability Tier1
Connections
Associated With
This source names United States directly: "The scientific agency of the United States government responsible for surveying the nation's and, through international collaboration, the world's landforms and water bodies."
Source United States Geological Survey
Sources
United States Geological Survey
Claims Backed By This Source (62 claims)
This source backs 62 claims across the atlas. As facts: 38 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 7 connected. Plus 11 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Landforms, 20 claims: 9 well-attested, 4 holds, 3 connected, 4 general references.
- Physical Processes, 19 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
- Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Bodies of Water, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Continents, 3 claims: 3 connected.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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