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Mississippi geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/sgmc/ms.html

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• msgeol.kml (2.5M bytes)
• msgeol.kmz (981k bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ms?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities& [Instructions]

or OGC WFS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ms?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities& [Instructions]

Use lithology_symbology.lyr ArcGIS layer file to symbolize lithology when using WFS

Download:

Geological attributes:	MScsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	MSgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	MSfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs
Colors for lithology:	lith6_2.style	ArcMap Style [Instructions]

Metadata:

[Outline] - [Questions & Answers] - [Plain text]

Legend indicating the meaning of colors on the interactive map

Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2005-1323

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/documents/CONUSdocumentation.pdf

GIS style files:

Methods used to create several styles for lithology or geologic time

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1314/

Sources:

Moore, William Halsell, 1969, reprinted 1985, Geologic Map of Mississippi, Compiled by Bicker, A. R., Jr., a revision of the geologic map published by the MS Geological Survey in 1945 in cooperation with the USGS, revised from data submitted by Dr. E. E. Russell of MS State University from published reports of the MS Geological Survey and from field revisions, Mercury Maps Inc., Jackson, MS.

Water polygons that are generated when standard state base map is used.

Geologic units in Mississippi