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Digital location of monoclines and structural uplifts of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

The Colorado Plateau structural province features long monoclinal flexures between uplifts and basins that are the major lines of deformation within and marginal to the Plateau. These folds are named, well-known, and have been described as part of several previous tectonic syntheses of the Colorado Plateau (Kelley, 1955; Davis, 1978; 1999). However, no digital data have ever been created that locate these folds in digital map space. This digital dataset compiles mapped locations of monoclinal folds from several geologic maps from the Colorado Plateau, most released only in “paper”, non-vector format. Fold names and their general map trace were guided by regional-scale maps that synthesize the tectonic elements of...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Geomorphology, NCGMP (National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program), All tags... National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, Piceance Basin, San Juan Basin, US GeoFramework Initiative, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uinta Basin, United States GeoFramework Initiative, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, elevation, folding (geologic), geologic structure, geoscientificInformation, structural geology, Fewer tags

Collection of digital structure contour maps from previously published USGS studies

Under the direction and funding of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) with guidance and encouragement from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), there has been a decadal strategic plan in place to call for geologic mapping across the nation. This call has been increasing the need for digital data that has not yet been made available. With such a demand, physical data is being re-released as vector-based, GIS operable data, which is viable as a corporate asset to the USGS. This collection of reports is part of the compilation and synthesis efforts hampered by the distributed nature of subsurface investigations at the USGS and a general lack of cataloging and archiving of 3-D geological...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Almond Formation, Arizona, Baxter Shale, Castlegate Sandstone, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Shale, Cutler Group, Dakota Formation, Dakota Sandstone, Exshaw Black Shale, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Fox Hills Sandstone, GeMS, Geologic Mapping Schema, Geomorphology, Glorieta Sandstone, Goose Egg Formation, Kinderhook Black Shale, Leadville Limestone, Lewis Shale, Minnelusa Formation, Montana, Morrison Formation, Mowry Shale, National Cooperative Geologic Map Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, North Dakota, Paradox Basin, Permian, Piceance Basin, Piceance Creek Basin, Pierre Shale, Powder River Basin, Rocky Mountains, Rollins Sandstone, San Andres Limestone, San Juan Basin, San Juan Mountains, San Juan Volcanics, Sedimentology, South Dakota, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Sundance Formation, Sundance Unconformity, Tensleep Sandstone, Trout Creek Sandstone, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uinta Basin, Utah, Wasatch Formation, Williston Basin, Wyoming, boundaries, chronostratigraphy, elevation, elevation, estimated thickness, geoscientificInformation, isopach contour, stratigraphy, structure contour, thickness contour, vector, Fewer tags

Surface and subsurface geologic data from previous USGS studies of the Gulf Coast region, south-central United States

This dataset captures in digital form the results of previously published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area studies related to water resource assessment of Cenozoic strata and unconsolidated deposits within the Mississippi Embayment and the Gulf Coastal Plain of the south-central United States. The data are from reports published from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s by the Gulf Coast Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) studies and in 2008 by the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS). These studies, and the data presented here, describe the geologic and hydrogeologic units of the Mississippi embayment, Texas coastal uplands, and the coastal lowlands aquifer systems, south-central...

Tags: 3D, Alabama, Arkansas, Cane River Formation, Carrizo Sand, All tags... Cenozoic, Claiborne Group, Coastal lowlands aquifer system, Cockfield Formation, Cook Mountain Formation, Eocene, Geography, Jackson Group, Kentucky, Laredo Formation, Louisiana, Lower Claiborne confining unit, Lower Wilcox aquifer, McNairy-Nacatoch aquifer, Memphis Sand, Middle Claiborne aquifer, Middle Claiborne confining unit, Middle Wilcox aquifer, Midway Group, Midway confining unit, Miocene, Mississippi, Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, Mississippi embayment aquifer system, Missouri, NCGMP (National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program), National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, Oklahoma, Oligocene, Paleocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, Regional Aquifer System Analysis, Sparta Sand, Tennessee, Tertiary, Texas, Texas coastal uplands aquifer system, US GeoFramework Initiative, USGI, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States GeoFramework Initiative, Upper Claiborne Aquifer, Upper Wilcox aquifer, Vicksburg Group, Wilcox Group, Yegua Formation, alluvial, borehole, elevation, elevation, environment, hydrogeologic, marine shale, sandstone, stratigraphic thickness, structure contours, thickness, three dimensional, Fewer tags

Digital Database of the Previously Published Geologic and Structure Contour Map of the La Junta Quadrangle, Colorado and Kansas

This digital dataset release of the La Junta, Colorado and Kansas quadrangle is composed of previously published elevation contours, structure contours on the limits of the Morrison, Dakota, and Purgatorie Formations, and geologic formational data. The digitizing of this map is to provide a more accessible dataset to be available for public usage. The original dataset was part of an eight-part series of maps in Colorado and Kansas, this map modified in part by reconnaissance by G.R. Scott in 1968. The entirety of this dataset includes both spatial and non-spatial data held in a singular, GeMS compliant geodatabase. This geodatabase includes a geologic map, geologic map feature class holding contact and fault lines,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Big Basin Formation, Colorado, Cretaceous, Dakota Sandstone, Dockum Group, All tags... Federal Geographic Data Committee, GeMS, Geologic Map Schema, Information Sciences, Kansas, La Junta, LaJunta_IsoValueLines, LaJunta_MapUnitPolys, Miocene, Morrison Formation, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, Niobrara Formation Smoky Hill Shale Member, Nussbaum Alluvium, Ogallala Formation, Permian, Pliocene, Quaternary, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Syenitic Lamprophyre, Tertiary, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Jurassic, Upper Triassic, anticline, elevation, geologic structure, geology, structure contours, syncline, vector digital data, Fewer tags

Digital Data from a Previously Published Tectonic Map of the Colorado Plateau

This digital dataset release of the Tectonic Map of the Colorado Plateau is a courtesy publication of the previously published legacy report by V.C. Kelley in 1955. The original publication, "Tectonic Map of the Colorado Plateau Showing Uranium Deposits" contains elevation contours from the top of the Chinle formation in 1000 ft intervals and geologic structural formations such as monoclinal, synclinal, and anticlinal structures. The digitizing of this map is to provide a more accessible dataset to be available for public usage. The original dataset was in relation to a larger project by the University of New Mexico and their publications in geology of uranium distributions throughout the Colorado Plateau (Kelley,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Chinle formation, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Federal Geographic Data Committee, All tags... Four Corners, GEMS, Geochemistry, Geologic Map Schema, Mineral Resources, National Cooperative Geologic Map Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, Seismology, Stratigraphy, Triassic, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uranium, Utah, anticline, biota, elevation, geology, high angle fault, monocline, plateau, structure contour, syncline, thrust fault, uplift, uplifts, vector digital data, Fewer tags