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South Carolina geologic map data

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• scgeol.kml (6.5M bytes)
• scgeol.kmz (2.1M bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

Download:

Geological attributes:	SCcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	SCgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	SCfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs

Metadata:

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Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2005-1323

Preliminary integrated geologic map databases for the United States : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1323/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:

Horton, J.Wright, and Dicken, Connie L., 2001, Preliminary Geologic Map of the Appalachian Piedmont and Blue Ridge, South Carolina Segment: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 01-298, CD

Newell, Wayne L., Prowell, David (retired), Krantz, David, Powars, David, Mixon, Robert (retired), Stone, Byron, and Willard, Debra, in review, Surficial Geology and Geomorphology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S.G.S. Open File Report,

Johnson, Bruce R., and Leveritch, Beth, 1998, 1:100,000 Scale State Boundaries of the Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey, unpublished.

Geologic units in South Carolina