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Massachusetts geologic map data

View:

Show in a web browser window:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/sgmc/ma.html

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• mageol.kml (18.9M bytes)
• mageol.kmz (5.7M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/state/ma?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities&

Download:

Geological attributes:	MAcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	MAgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	MAfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs

Metadata:

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Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2006-1272

Preliminary Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1272/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1272/documents/CONUSdocumentationNENJ.pdf

GIS style files:

Methods used to create several styles for lithology or geologic time

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1314/

Sources:

Unpublished Digital Geologic Map of Massachusetts received from Rudi Hon at Boston College in 1998.

Geologic units in Massachusetts