USGS Home
Contact USGS
Search USGS

Mineral Resources > Online Spatial Data > Geology > by state

New Jersey geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• njgeol.kml (11.1M bytes)
• njgeol.kmz (3.8M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

or OGC WFS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/nj?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:	NJcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	NJgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	NJfaults_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 2006-1272

Preliminary Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1272/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1272/documents/CONUSdocumentationNENJ.pdf

GIS style files:

Methods used to create several styles for lithology or geologic time

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

Sources:

Dalton, R. F., Herman, G. C., Monteverde, D. H., Pristas, R. S., Sugarman, P. J., Volkert, R. A., 1999, New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection, Bedrock Geology and Topographic Base Maps of New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey CD Series CD 00-1; ARC/INFO (v. 7.1) export file: geology.e00, scale 1:100,000, unit description files: cslegend.pdf and nlegend.pdf, metadata: metast.pdf.

Geologic units in New Jersey