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Massachusetts geologic map data

[Legend for lithology colors]

View:

Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• mageol.kml (22.4M bytes)
• mageol.kmz (7.6M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ma?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities& [Instructions]

or OGC WFS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/ma?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities& [Instructions]

Use lithology_symbology.lyr ArcGIS layer file to symbolize lithology when using WFS

Download:

Geological attributes:	MAcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	MAgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	MAfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs
Colors for lithology:	lith6_2.style	ArcMap Style [Instructions]

Metadata:

[Outline] - [Questions & Answers] - [Plain text]

Legend indicating the meaning of colors on the interactive map

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Unpublished Digital Geologic Map of Massachusetts received from Rudi Hon at Boston College in 1998.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