Database of Geoscientific References Through 2007 for Afghanistan, Version 2; Open file rept

摘要

This report describes an accompanying database of geoscientific references for the country of Afghanistan. The reference compilation is part of a larger joint study of Afghanistan's energy, mineral, and water resources, and geologic hazards, currently underway by the U.S. Geological Survey, the British Geological Survey, and the Afghanistan Geological Survey. The compilation of geoscientific references was initially planned to contain only mineral-resource-related references. However, the effort soon grew to encompass references related to water resources, energy resources, geologic hazards, and other geoscientific disciplines. Version 1 of the reference database (Eppinger and Sipeki, 2006) contained 1,157 published and 168 unpublished references, and was available online only. The superseding version 2 was compiled through September 2007, and the number of published references is more than doubled at over 2,400.