Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data

World geology compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada at approximately 1:35,000,000 scale, published there as Open File Report 2915.

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http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/worldgeol?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1

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Source of the database:

Geological Survey of Canada Open-File Report 2915d

Generalized geological map of the world and linked databases (published 1995)

http://geopub.nrcan.gc.ca/moreinfo_e.php?id=195142

Portion used here is specifically "Kirkham, R.V., Chorlton, L.B., and Carriere, J.J. (compilers), 1995, Generalized geology of the world", in the directory GENEOL of the downloaded data package.

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