Generalized geology of the world

World geology compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada at approximately 1:35,000,000 scale, published there as Open File Report 5529.

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Service, version	URL	Capabilities document
WMS, version 1.3.0	https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/gscworld	Capabilities
WFS, version 1.1.0	https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/wfs/gscworld	Capabilities

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This dataset is not a product of USGS, but comes from the Geological Survey of Canada. Natural Resources Canada provides these data in GIS formats, including shapefile format, through the link to the publication below. The ZIP package is 550M bytes as of 2022.

Publication

Generalized Geology of the World: Bedrock Domains and Major Faults in GIS Format

Chorlton, L.B., 2007, Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529, 2007, 48 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/223767 (Open Access).

On this page a link labeled Downloads opens a second page which provides a link to the ZIP package containing these data in GIS formats.