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Geology, New York State, 1974

Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Schruben, Arndt, and Bawiec
Publication Date
1994
Title
Geology, New York State, 1974
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
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://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-002708
Abstract
This dataset is a digital representation of the King and Beikman map. In 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey published a new Geologic Map of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii) on a scale of 1:2,500,000, which was compiled between 1967 and 1971 by Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman, with geologic cartography by Gertrude J. Edmonston.
Purpose
(from King and Beikman, 1974b) The map displays the rocky foundations on which our of investigation of this foundation by a succession of geologists. It is thus a reference work that present and future geologists of the country can consult and is of prime importance in the education of earth scientists in schools and colleges. Further, it can be consulted by geologists in other countries and continents who wish to learn about the geology of the United States; they will compare the map with similar national or continental maps of their own countries. In terms of resources useful to man, the Geologic Map lays out accurately the major regions of bedrock in New York State upon which many facets of our economy depend. It illustrates the areas of stratified rocks that are the sources of most of our fuels, and the areas of crystalline, plutonic, and volcanic rocks that contain important parts of mineral wealth. The map shows areas of complex folding and faulting, parts of which are still tectonically unstable and subject to earthquake hazards. To some extent the bedrock represented on the map also influences surface soils, which are of interest in agriculture and engineering works. Beyond this, the practical value of the map is less tangible, although it can be an important tool for the discerning user. Clearly, the map will not pinpoint the location of the next producing oil well or the next bonanza mine, nor will it give specific advice for the location of a dam or reactor site; these needs can only be satisfied by maps on much larger scales, designed for specific purposes. Nevertheless, the sapient exploration geologist can find upon it significant regional features not apparent to the untrained user. Many great petroleum pools occur in stratigraphic traps, or "wedge belts of porosity," caused by overlap or truncation, the regional occurrence of which can be seen on the map. Important mineral deposits cluster along regional tectonic trends or chains of plutons of specific ages. Finally, the Geologic Map will be used in national planning activities in conjunction with other national maps showing environmental features such as climate, vegetation, and land use --for the location of power transmission corridors, highways, National Parks, wilderness areas, reclamation projects, and the like.
Supplemental Information
The map of King and Beikman (1974a) was digitized by the USGS (Schruben et al.). 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 1:200,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph data (USGS, 1987), generalized to 1 km. Revisions Reviews_Applied_to_Data Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets: None. References_Cited King, Philip A. and Helen M. Beikman, 1974a, USGS Geologic Map of the United States , Washington, D.C.: U.S.Government Printing Office. https://web.archive.org/web/19980517081154/http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/kb/pp901.txt Philip B. King and Helen K. Beikman, 1974b, Explanatory Text to Accompany the Geologic Map of the United States, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Schruben, Paul G., Raymond E. Arndt, and Walter J. Bawiec, Geology of Coterminous United States: Digital Representation of King and Beikman 1974, USGS Digital Data Series DDS-11 https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds11/
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Bounding Box
West
-79.762154
East
-71.856102
North
45.011112
South
40.495922
Theme Keyword
Bedrock Geology
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
ISO Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Theme Keyword
geology
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
CUGIR Category
Place Keyword
New York (State)
Place Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
None
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Not planned
Point of Contact
Contact Person
Muawia Barazangi
Delivery Point
Snee Hall, Department of Geosciences
City
Ithaca
State
NY
Postal Code
14853
Contact Telephone
(607)255-6411
Contact Facsimile Telephone
(607)254-4780
Contact Electronic Mail Address
gis@geology.cornell.edu
Native Data Set Environment
SunOS UNIX, ARC/INFO version 7.2.1
Cross-Reference
Originator
King, Philip B.
Originator
Beikman, Helen M.
Publication Date
1974
Title
Explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the US
Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy Report
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. For more information See Entity_Attribute_Information.
Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
Logical Consistency Report
Polygon and chain-node topology present.
Completeness Report
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.
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, 1974a) is intended to be used at a scale of 1:250,000,000, not 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
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 Information
Series Name
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Issue Identification
901
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, VA
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Source Scale Denominator
2500000
Type of Source Media
Paper
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1974
Source Currentness Reference
Publication date
Contribution
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count
222
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000001
Longitude Resolution
0.000001
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
World Geodetic System 1984
Ellipsoid Name
WGS_1984
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257224
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
geologoy_ny_1974
Entity Type Definition
geological map polygons
Entity Type Definition Source
Attributes
AREA
Area of poly/region in square coverage units (degrees) (Positive real numbers)
Definition Source
Computed
PERIMETER
Perimeter of poly/region in coverage units (degrees) (Positive real numbers)
Definition Source
Computed
GE_DD_
Internal feature number (Sequential unique positive integer)
Definition Source
Computed
GEO_DD_ID
User-assigned feature number (Integer)
Definition Source
User-defined
ORDER
code indicating rock unit (1 to 162)
Definition Source
UNIT
abbreviation of bedrock unit name (names)
Definition Source
USGS Professional Paper 901
ROCKDESC
description of rock unit: age and rock type (description)
Definition Source
METAMOR
Undocumented attribute (string)
Definition Source
Distribution Information
Format Name
Shapefile
Format Name
metadata
Format Name
HTML metadata
Format Name
KML
Format Name
GeoJSON
Format Name
OGC:WMS
Distributor
Albert R. Mann Library
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/27/08/cugir-002708.zip
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/27/08/fgdc.xml
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/27/08/fgdc.html
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir002708outputFormat=application%2Fvnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir002708outputFormat=application%2Fjson
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir002708bbox=-79.99933555999999,40.3604663,-71.61892044000001,45.1465677width=256height=146srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20190524
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Albert R. Mann Library
Contact Address
Address
Albert R. Mann Library
City
Ithaca
State or Province
New York
Postal Code
14853
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
607-255-5406
Contact Electronic Mail Address
mann-ref@cornell.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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