Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia
Description
These data provide geologic information, including generalized lithology, geologic age, and paleo-latitude and -longitude of geologic units, for the United States, Canada, and Australia, in an H3 Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) hexagonal format (Uber Technologies Inc., 2020) with an average hexagon area of 5.16 square kilometers. The data are presented as the shapefile version of ASCII data developed by Lawley and others (2021) for prospectivity modeling of basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Lawley and others, 2022).
References
Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2021, Datasets to support prospectivity modelling for sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems: Natural Resources Canada Open File 8836, https://doi.org/10.4095/329203.
Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635.
Uber Technologies Inc., 2020, H3: A hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system: GitHub Repository, https://github.com/uber/h3.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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55 |
Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5 |
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55 |
The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.623a26e4d34e915b67cdf5f4.xml |
Tags
- geoscience-australia
- usgs-623a26e4d34e915b67cdf5f4
- unconsolidated-deposits
- sedimentary-rocks
- geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center
- canada
- exploring-for-the-future-program
- geological-survey-of-canada
- u-s-geological-survey
- critical-minerals-mapping-initiative
- h3-dggs
- geology
- gsc
- united-states
- geospatial-datasets
- geoscientificinformation
- uber-grid
- mineral-resources-program
- targeted-geoscience-initiative
- discrete-global-grid-system
- cmmi
- australia
- gggsc
- igneous-rocks
- mrp
- usgs
- lithology
- ga
- geologic-maps
- tgi
- hexagonal-hierarchical-geospatial-indexing-system
- rocks-and-deposits
- metamorphic-rocks