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New York geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• nygeol.kml (19.7M bytes)
• nygeol.kmz (7.0M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

or OGC WFS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ny?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:	NYcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	NYgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
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 2005-1325

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States : Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/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:

NYS Museum, NYS Geological Survey, NYS Museum Technology Center, 1999, 1:250,000 Bedrock geology of NYS, data is distributed in ARC/INFOr EXPORT format (with ".e00" extension) in 5 seperate files based on printed map sheets, http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/gis.html.

Geologic units in New York