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New Mexico geologic map data

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Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• nmgeol.kml (25.8M bytes)
• nmgeol.kmz (7.7M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

Download:

Geological attributes:	NMcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	NMgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	NMfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs
Dikes:	NMdikes_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs

Metadata:

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Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2005-1351

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States: Central states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1351/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1351/documents/CONUSDocumentation.pdf

GIS style files:

Methods used to create several styles for lithology or geologic time

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

Sources:

Green, G.N., and Jones, G.E., 1997, The Digital Geologic Map of New Mexico in ARC/INFO Format: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0052, 9 p.; http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1992/ofr-92-0052.

Geologic units in New Mexico