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Wisconsin geologic map data

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Show in a web browser window:

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

Show in Google Earth or download KML:

• wigeol.kml (2.0M bytes)
• wigeol.kmz (672k bytes)

Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

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

Download:

Geological attributes:	WIcsv.zip	CSV format
Geologic units:	WIgeol_dd.zip	Shapefile, polygon
Faults:	WIfaults_dd.zip	Shapefile, arcs

Metadata:

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Publication:

USGS Open-File Report 2004-1355

Integrated geologic map databases for the United States; the upper midwest states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1355/

Methodology:

Detailed report of data standardization procedures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1355/documents/CONUSdocumentationMW.pdf

GIS style files:

Methods used to create several styles for lithology or geologic time

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

Sources:

Mudrey, M.G., Jr., Brown, B.A., and Greenberg, J.K., 1982, Bedrock Geologic Map of Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Extension, Geological and Natural History Survey, scale= 1:1,000,000

Sims, P.K., 1992, Geologic map of Precambrian rocks, southern Lake Superior region, Wisconsin and northern Michigan: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-2185, scale= 1:500,000

Cannon, W.F., Kress, T.H., Sutphin, D.M., Morey, G.B., Meints, Joyce, and Barber-Delach, Robert, 1997, Digital Geologic Map and mineral deposits of the Lake Superior Region, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan: USGS Open-File Report 97-455 (version 3, Nov. 1999), on-line only

USGS Geologic Names lexicon found at: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/

Geologic units in Wisconsin