Collection of digital structure contour maps from previously published USGS studies

Publication Date

2023-03-07

End Date

2023

Smout, B., 2023, Collection of digital structure contour maps from previously published USGS studies: U.S. Geological Survey data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P90XGFHZ.

A problem faced among mapping and modeling geologists is commonly “does this data already exist?” sometimes even if the answer is yes, finding that data is not easy, or it is not readily available. This can create a bit of a traffic jam with geologists who are seeking to spend more time in the actual creating period, rather than the searching period. An addition to this question was the added frustration of if the data did exist, it was not available for spatial ingestion. This brought upon the cause for sending out paper or pdf reports to be digitized and later be available for usage in a GIS. This collection of reports is an example of this, these reports have been contractually digitized, USGS reviewed, standardized to incorporate many aspects of the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s data schema for digital geologic maps (GeMS, https://doi.org/10.3133/tm11B10), and processed for organization and consistency. Ensuring standardization of data is critical in a release as it offers security to the user that the data available has been reviewed and is consistent with other works going forward. This dataset may be an influence for many others of its kind as reports and other data is found physically but not digitally at this point.

ScienceBase WMS

• National Geologic Synthesis (NGS)