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Database for the geologic map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park region, Tennessee and North Carolina

Dates

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2022-01-01

Citation

Merschat, A.J., Weinmann, B.R., Southworth, C.S., Aleinikoff, J.N., Crider Jr., E.A., and Art Schultz, 2022, Database for the geologic map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park region, Tennessee and North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P966CGHN.

Summary

The geologic map database of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park region of Tennessee and North Carolina is a result from studies from 1993 to 2003 as part of a cooperative investigation by the U.S. Geological Survey with the National Park Service (NPS). This work resulted in a 1:100,000-scale geologic map derived from mapping that was conducted at scales of 1:24,000 and 1:62,500. The geologic data are intended to support cooperative investigations with the NPS, the development of a new soil map by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. In response to a request by the NPS, we mapped previously unstudied areas, revised the geology where problems existed, and developed a map database for [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Arthur J Merschat
Process Contact :
Benjamin R Weinmann
Originator :
Art Schultz, C. Scott Southworth, John N Aleinikoff, E. Allen Crider Jr., Benjamin R Weinmann, Arthur J Merschat
Metadata Contact :
Ernest A Crider
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems

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SmokiesTNNCSIM2997-metadata.xml
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View 		39.96 KB application/fgdc+xml
SmokiesTNNCSIM2997.zip
“Map document, database, and stylesheets” 		17.85 MB application/zip
SmokiesTNNCSIM2997-Open.zip
“Open-Access shapefiles” 		27.09 MB application/zip
SmokiesTNNCSIM2997-Metadata.zip
“FGDC-compliant metadata for individual feature and object classes” 		168.16 KB application/zip

Purpose

The geologic map database of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park region is intended to serve as a foundation for applying geologic information to problems involving land use decisions, groundwater availability and quality, earth resources such as natural aggregate for construction, assessment of natural hazards (earthquakes), and engineering and environmental studies for waste disposal sites and construction projects.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P966CGHN

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