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USGS Thesaurus Keywords

igneous rocks, geologic maps, geospatial datasets, geology, rocks and deposits, unconsolidated deposits, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks

ISO 19115 Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Other Subject Keywords

hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system, Geoscience Australia, USGS, Exploring for the Future Program, Mineral Resources Program, U.S. Geological Survey, GSC, TGI, Discrete Global Grid System, CMMI, Uber grid, Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative, MRP, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, H3 DGGS, GGGSC, GA, Targeted Geoscience Initiative, Geological Survey of Canada, lithology

Place Keywords

United States, Australia, Canada

Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia

These data provide geologic information, including generalized lithology, geologic age, and paleo-latitude and -longitude of geologic units, for the United States, Canada, and Australia, in an H3 Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) hexagonal format (Uber Technologies Inc., 2020) with an average hexagon area of 5.16 square kilometers. The data are presented as the shapefile version of ASCII data developed by Lawley and others (2021) for prospectivity modeling of basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Lawley and others, 2022). References Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2021, Datasets to support prospectivity modelling for sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems: Natural Resources Canada Open File 8836, https://doi.org/10.4095/329203. Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635. Uber Technologies Inc., 2020, H3: A hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system: GitHub Repository, https://github.com/uber/h3.

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Author(s) Anne E McCafferty orcid, Carma A San orcid, Christopher Lawley orcid, Garth E Graham orcid, Michael G Gadd orcid, David L Huston orcid, Karen Duttweiler Kelley orcid, Suzanne Paradis orcid, Jan M Peter orcid, Karol Czarnota
Publication Date 2023-08-14
Beginning Date of Data 2023
Ending Date of Data 2023
Data Contact
Garth E Graham
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5
Citation McCafferty, A.E., San, C.A., Lawley, C., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2023, Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5.
Metadata Contact
Carma A San Juan
Metadata Date 2023-08-14
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