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Rhode Island geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• rigeol.kml (3.2M bytes)
• rigeol.kmz (1.0M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

or OGC WFS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ri?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:	RIcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	RIgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	RIfaults_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:

Hermes, O.D., Gromet, L.P., Murray, D.P., Hamidzada, N.A., 1994, Geologic Map of Rhode Island, file name = bedrock_shp.zip (870kb) obtained from Rhode Island Geographic Information System, http://www.edc.uri.edu/rigis-spf/Statewide/state.html#geology , shapefile or interchange file, scale 1/100,000.

Geologic units in Rhode Island