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  1. National-Scale Geophysical, Geologic, and Mineral Resource Data and Grids for the United States, Canada, and Australia: Data in Support of the Tri-National Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative
  2. [Geological Data] Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia

[Geological Data] Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia

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2023

Citation

McCafferty, A.E., San Juan, C.A., Lawley, C.J.M., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2023, National-scale geophysical, geologic, and mineral resource data and grids for the United States, Canada, and Australia: Data in support of the tri-national Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5.

Summary

These data provide geologic information, including generalized lithology, geologic age, and paleo-latitude and -longitude of geologic units, for the United States, Canada, and Australia, in an H3 Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) hexagonal format (Uber Technologies Inc., 2020) with an average hexagon area of 5.16 square kilometers. The data are presented as the shapefile version of ASCII data developed by Lawley and others (2021) for prospectivity modeling of basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Lawley and others, 2022). References Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2021, Datasets to support prospectivity [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Garth E Graham
Originator :
Christopher JM Lawley, Garth E Graham, Michael G Gadd, Karol Czarnota, David L Huston, Carma A San Juan
Metadata Contact :
Carma A San Juan, GS GGGSC DM Team
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
USGS Program :
Mineral Resources Program
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Geology_H3Grid_US_Canada_Australia.xml
“FGDC metadata for gridded geology for U.S., Canada, and Australia”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		39.09 KB application/fgdc+xml
CMMI_Classification.csv
“CSV Table of CMMI classification” 		10.66 KB text/csv
Geology_H3Grid_Alaska.zip
“Shapefile of gridded geology - Alaska” 		40.67 MB application/zip
Geology_H3Grid_Canada.zip
“Shapefile of gridded geology - Canada” 		191.86 MB application/zip
Geology_H3Grid_CONUS.zip
“Shapefile of gridded geology - conterminous U.S.” 		151.07 MB application/zip
Geology_Period.lyr
“Esri layer file to display gridded geology by geologic time periods” 		18.5 KB application/x-tika-msoffice
Geology_Lithology.lyr
“Esri layer file to display gridded geology by lithology” 		25.5 KB application/x-tika-msoffice
Geology_H3Grid_Australia.zip
“Shapefile of gridded geology - Australia” 		186.82 MB application/zip
Geology_H3Grid_US_Canada_Australia.gdb.zip
“Esri file geodatabase of gridded geology layers” 		490.16 MB application/zip
Geology_H3Grid_US_Canada_Australia.jpg
“Image of gridded geology for U.S., Canada, and Australia” 		thumbnail 2.12 MB image/jpeg

Purpose

The purpose of these datasets is to provide a GIS format of gridded data used as input layers for prospectivity modeling of basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Lawley and others, 2022). Geologic information is presented in a hexagonal grid format with an average hexagon area of 5.16 square kilometers that is best suited for small-scale or continental use. References Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635.
Image of gridded geology for U.S., Canada, and Australia
Image of gridded geology for U.S., Canada, and Australia

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