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New Hampshire geologic map data

A GIS database of geologic units and structural features in New Hampshire, with lithology, age, data structure, and format written and arranged just like the other states.
Geology of New Hampshire
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Show in a web browser window:
http://mrdata.usgs.gov/sgmc/nh.html
Show in Google Earth or download KML:
Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:
http://mrdata.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/state/nh?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities&
Download:
Geological attributes: NHcsv.zip CSV format
Geologic units: NHgeol_dd.zip Shapefile, polygon
Faults: NHfaults_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:

Bennett, D. S, , Wittkop, C.A., and Dicken, C.L., 2006 , Bedrock Geologic Map of New Hampshire - A Digital Representation of the Lyons and others 1997 map and ancillary files: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 215, scale 1:250,000, CD-ROM.

Geologic units in New Hampshire


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