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Geology, New York State, 1974
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- 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