GIS Data for Geologic Map of the White Rock Canyon quadrangle, Carbon County, Wyoming
Description
This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides a digital geospatial database for the geologic map of the White Rock Canyon quadrangle, Carbon County, Wyoming (Hyden and others, 1968). Attribute tables and geospatial features (points, lines and polygons) conform to the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS, 2020) and represent the geologic map as published in USGS Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-789. The 35,758-acre map area represents the geology at a publication scale of 1:24,000.
References: Hyden, H.J., Houston, R.S., and King, J.S., 1968, Geologic map of the White Rock Canyon quadrangle, Carbon County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-789, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/gq789.
U.S. Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, 2020, GeMS (Geologic Map Schema) - A standard format for the digital publication of geologic maps: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 11, chap. B10, 74 p., https://doi.org//10.3133/tm11B10.
Resources
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H9IMOE |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6569190fd34e17319ded10d3.xml |
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