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North Carolina geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/map.html

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• ncgeol.kml (9.2M bytes)
• ncgeol.kmz (3.3M bytes)

List geologic units by state or county

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

or OGC WFS:

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/nc?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:	NCcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	NCgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	NCfaults_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 2005-1323

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/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:

The North Carolina Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Land Resources, NC Geological Survey, in cooperation with the NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, 1998, Geology - North Carolina (1:250,000), coverage data file geol250. The data represents the digital equivalent of the official State Geology map (1:500,000 scale), but was digitized from (1:250,000 scale) base maps.

Water polygons that are generated when standard state base map is used.