Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map

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Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Schruben, Paul G.
Originator: Arndt, Raymond E.
Originator: Bawiec, Walter J.
Originator: King, Philip B.
Originator: Beikman, Helen M.
Publication_Date: 1994
Title:

Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale -- A Digital Representation of the 1974 P.B. King and H.M. Beikman Map

Edition: unprojected
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map
Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series
Issue_Identification: DDS-11

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ds11
Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds11/

Description:

Abstract:

This CD-ROM contains a digital version of the Geologic Map of the United States, originally published at a scale of 1:2,500,000 (King and Beikman, 1974b). It excludes Alaska and Hawaii. In addition to the graphical formats, the map key is included in ASCII text.

A geographic information system (GIS) allows combining and overlaying of layers for analysis of spatial relations not readily apparent in the standard paper publication. This disc contains only geology. However, digital data on geology, geophysics, and geochemistry can be combined to create useful derivative products-- for example, see Phillips and others (1993).

This CD-ROM contains a copy of the text and figures from Professional Paper 901 by King and Beikman (1974a). This text describes the historical background of the map, details of the compilation process, and limitations to interpretation. The digital version of the text can be searched for keywords or phrases.

Purpose:

Conversion of the geologic map of the U.S. to a digital format was undertaken to facilitate the presentation and analysis of earth-science data. Digital maps can be displayed at any scale or projection, whereas a paper map has a fixed scale and projection. However, the geology on this disc is not intended to be used at any scale finer than 1:2,500,000.

Supplemental_Information:

For DOS users, the CD-ROM contains menu-driven analytical software, in which the user selects from an array of topics. The CD-ROM also contains MAPPER display software, a user-friendly package that displays the interactive vector map. The raster image of the geologic map can be displayed with VIEWLBL.

For other types of computer users, the map must be converted from one of the following formats included on the CD-ROM:

ARC/INFO 6.1.1 Export Digital Line Graph (DLG) Optional Drawing Exchange File (DXF) Map Overlay Statistical System (MOSS)

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Multiple_Dates/Times:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1974

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1994

Currentness_Reference:

Publication date of the original work (1974) and the CD-ROM (1994)

Status:

Progress: complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: not planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -162.0
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.0
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 60.0
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.0

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: National Geologic Map Database Catalog themes, augmented
Theme_Keyword: 1100 - Geology
Theme_Keyword: 1101 - General

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Common geographic areas
Place_Keyword: fUS01 = Alabama
Place_Keyword: fUS04 = Arizona
Place_Keyword: fUS05 = Arkansas
Place_Keyword: fUS06 = California
Place_Keyword: fUS08 = Colorado
Place_Keyword: fUS09 = Connecticut
Place_Keyword: fUS10 = Delaware
Place_Keyword: fUS11 = District of Columbia
Place_Keyword: fUS12 = Florida
Place_Keyword: fUS13 = Georgia
Place_Keyword: fUS16 = Idaho
Place_Keyword: fUS17 = Illinois
Place_Keyword: fUS18 = Indiana
Place_Keyword: fUS19 = Iowa
Place_Keyword: fUS20 = Kansas
Place_Keyword: fUS21 = Kentucky
Place_Keyword: fUS22 = Louisiana
Place_Keyword: fUS23 = Maine
Place_Keyword: fUS24 = Maryland
Place_Keyword: fUS25 = Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: fUS26 = Michigan
Place_Keyword: fUS27 = Minnesota
Place_Keyword: fUS28 = Mississippi
Place_Keyword: fUS29 = Missouri
Place_Keyword: fUS30 = Montana
Place_Keyword: fUS31 = Nebraska
Place_Keyword: fUS32 = Nevada
Place_Keyword: fUS33 = New Hampshire
Place_Keyword: fUS34 = New Jersey
Place_Keyword: fUS35 = New Mexico
Place_Keyword: fUS36 = New York
Place_Keyword: fUS37 = North Carolina
Place_Keyword: fUS38 = North Dakota
Place_Keyword: fUS39 = Ohio
Place_Keyword: fUS40 = Oklahoma
Place_Keyword: fUS41 = Oregon
Place_Keyword: fUS42 = Pennsylvania
Place_Keyword: fUS44 = Rhode Island
Place_Keyword: fUS45 = South Carolina
Place_Keyword: fUS46 = South Dakota
Place_Keyword: fUS47 = Tennessee
Place_Keyword: fUS48 = Texas
Place_Keyword: fUS49 = Utah
Place_Keyword: fUS50 = Vermont
Place_Keyword: fUS51 = Virginia
Place_Keyword: fUS53 = Washington
Place_Keyword: fUS54 = West Virginia
Place_Keyword: fUS55 = Wisconsin

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: geology
Theme_Keyword: bedrock geologic units
Theme_Keyword: geologic maps
Theme_Keyword: lithostratigraphy
Theme_Keyword: geologic structure
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Theme_Keyword: folds (geologic)

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: none
Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Schruben, Paul G.
Contact_Organization: Minerals Information Office

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address:

Mail Stop 920, National Center
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (703) 648-6142
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (703) 648-6057
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschruben@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds11/kb.gif
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Bedrock geologic map units of the conterminous United States
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Data General AViiON 6220 computer system running the DG/UX version of UNIX.

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: King, Philip B.
Originator: Beikman, Helen M.
Publication_Date: 1974
Title:

Explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the United States

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Issue_Identification: 901

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The linework was captured by hand digitizing as well as scanning from the paper map and negatives. The digital map was assembled and edited in ARC/INFO on a State-by-State basis, which caused some edge-matching problems. The final mosaic was adjusted several times to correct for registration problems. The coastline was taken from the 1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph data (U.S. Geological Survey, 1987), generalized to 1 km.

Construction of a geologic map of an area as large and complex as the conterminous United States requires a great deal of generalization: geologic units shown on larger scale maps are combined into broader map units and their contacts are simplified to produce a pattern that is legible at the scale of publication. The process of generalization used in the compilation of the Geologic Map of the United States is described in King and Beikman (1974a, p. 20).

Furthermore, the Geologic Map of the United States is primarily a bedrock map, which depicts geologic materials present beneath the soil or relatively thin mantles of surficial deposits, not necessarily the surficial materials themselves. For example, the map does not depict the glacial deposits in the northern States, the widespread eolian deposits in the High Plains, and the high-level gravels that mantle older Tertiary and pre-Tertiary units in much of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

The coverages on this disc for the digital geologic map of the conterminous United States differ in several ways from the published map. The county outlines, cities, drainage, and other base-map information are not present on the digital version except as overlays in MAPPER. Only the larger water bodies are included.

The larger geology polygons are split into several smaller polygons to avoid problems with color and pattern fill on screen plots and paper plotters. The maximum polygon size is 1476 vertices, which is PostScript compatible.

The rock-unit names are stored in uppercase letters as well as the published mixed case. For instance:

 TMC   Tmc
 TMOE  Tmoe
 UTA   uTa

The uppercase names are used in the coverage because an INFO sort in ARC/INFO is case sensitive. The lookup tables must be sorted to work correctly. The mixed-case rock-unit names are in the kbcolor.lut lookup table. Longer rock-unit descriptions such as:

 Cretaceous granitic rocks
 Washita Group

are in the ROCKDESC column of the .pat file of the KBLEG coverage. Some of the unit names have been modified to avoid ambiguity.

The Pennsylvanian symbol is stored as PP in:

     PP
     PP1
     PP1a
     PP2
     PP3
     PP4

The Triassic symbol is stored as Tr in:

     JTr
     Tr
     TrPe
     Trv
     Tri
     Trg

The Cambrian symbol is stored as C in:

     C
     Cq
     OC
     Ce
     Cv
     Cg
 m1 is replaced with mm1 to avoid confusion with M1
 m2 is replaced with mm2 to avoid confusion with M2
 m3 is replaced with mm3 to avoid confusion with M3
 m4 is replaced with mm4 for consistency

The extent of glaciation appears in the legend but is not present in the coverage.

Completeness_Report:

The map does not include coverage of Alaska, Hawaii, or territories.

The Geologic Map of the United States is primarily a bedrock map, which depicts geologic materials present beneath the soil or relatively thin mantles of surficial deposits, not necessarily the surficial materials themselves. For example, the map does not depict the glacial deposits in the northern States, the widespread eolian deposits in the High Plains, and the high-level gravels that mantle older Tertiary and pre-Tertiary units in much of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The users of the geologic map on this disc should respect the intentions of the compilers of the map and some of its limitations. The Geologic Map of the United States (King and Beikman, 1974b) is intended to be used at a scale of 1:2,500,000; it is not intended to be used at a more detailed scale. For instance, Colorado is about 10 inches wide at the published scale of the King and Beikman map.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Philip B. King
Originator: Helen M. Beikman
Publication_Date: 1974
Title:

Explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the United States

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Issue_Identification: 901

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Other_Citation_Details: Library of Congress catalog - card No. 74-600169

Source_Scale_Denominator: 2500000
Type_of_Source_Media: Paper
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1974

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: King and Beikman (1974)
Source_Contribution:

Data presented on USGS DDS-11 were produced by scanning this printed map.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The ARC/INFO version of the Geologic Map of the United States consists of three coverages:

1) geology - 12,800 polygons 2) faults - 3 fault types and hidden contacts 3) legend - 164 rock units

The fault coverage has four line types:

1) faults 2) dashed faults 3) dotted faults 4) hidden contacts

The DESC field descriptors are FAULT, DASH, DOT, CONTAC, respectively.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: King and Beikman (1974)
Process_Date: 1993

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Unprojected vector data repackaged using EPSG 4269 coordinate system (geographic, NAD83, decimal degrees) as on https://mrdata.usgs.gov/

Process_Date: 20071009
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/us/kbgeology.zip
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Peter N Schweitzer
Contact_Organization: USGS ER GD

Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192-0002
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-6533
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6252
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschweitzer@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 21465

SDTS_Terms_Description:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 29972

SDTS_Terms_Description:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 12860

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

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Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
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Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

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Entity_Type_Definition:

Bedrock formations that are, wherever possible, time-stratigraphic--that is, units which are approximately the same geologic ages at all places, such as systems, series, and stages.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 901

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Fault
Entity_Type_Definition:

Faults are shown not only to explain offsets of map units, but for their own sake, to express the structural grain of the area. The density of faults represented on the geologic map thus equals that which would appear on a tectonic map of the country, but they are marked simply as faults, not as low-angle or high- angle thrust faults, normal faults, or strike-slip faults; for this information the user should consult the appro- priate tectonic map.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 901

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Labels of the mapped units described by polygons in the data set are as follows:

C,cat,Ce,Cg,Cq,Cv,D,D1,D2,D2c,D3,D3c,De,dike,DS,DSe,DSv,Dv,J, Jc,Jg,Jmi,JTr,Kc,Ke,Kg,Kg1,Kg2,Kg3,Kgn,Ki,Kv,lK,lK1,lK2,lK3, lMz,lMze,lMzv,lPz,lPze,lTa,lTf,lTv,M,M1,M2,M3,mm1,mm2,mm3,mm4, Ms,O,O1,O1a,O1b,O2,O3,OC,Oe,Ov,P,P1,P1c,P2,P2a,P2ac,P2b,P3,P3a, P3b,P4,Pe,PP,PP1,PP1a,PP2,PP3,PP4,Pza,Pzg1,Pzg2,Pzg3,Pzmi,Q, Qf,Qh,Qp,Qv,S,S1,S2,S3,Se,SOe,Sv,Ta,Te,Te1,Te2,Te3,Teb,Tec,Tee, Tel,Ti,Tm,Tmc,Tmf,Tmoe,Tmv,To,Toc,Toee,Tp,Tpc,Tpf,Tpv,Tr,Trg, Tri,TrPe,Trv,Tx,Txc,uK,uK1,uK2,uK3,uK3a,uK3b,uK4,uM,uMze,uPz, uPzc,uPze,uTa,W,Wg,Wgn,Wmi,WTER,Wv,X,Xg,Xm,Xv,Y,Y1,Y2,Y3,Ya, Yg1,Yg2,Ygn,Ym,Ymi,Ys,Yv,Z,Zg,Zv

Each line object in the fault coverage has one of four attribute values:

1) faults (label FAULT) 2) dashed fault (label DASH) 3) dotted fault (label DOT) 4) hidden contact (label CONTAC)

Full details of the meanings of the attributes are given in USGS Professional Paper 901, whose text is provided with this data set.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 901 is included with this data set (when distributed in CD-ROM format) in ASCII, with figures in TIFF.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Peter N Schweitzer
Contact_Organization: USGS Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center

Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192-0002
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-6533
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6252
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pschweitzer@usgs.gov

Distribution_Liability:

This Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Any views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Although all data and software published on this CD-ROM have been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials and/or the functioning of the software. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of this data, software, or related materials.

Graphical map depictions on this disc are intended to be used within the map scale limits applicable to the source data. Although software enables the user to show images on the disc at various scales, the user is cautioned to refer to the source documentation for the appropriate map scale limitations.

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Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

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Contact_Person: Peter N Schweitzer
Contact_Organization: USGS Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center

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Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
City: Reston
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