Wisconsin GS Lake Superior legacy collection of hand samples and thin sections

Dates

Award Date

2014-09-01

Summary

This is a multifaceted collection of physical materials -- rock hand samples and rock thin sections-- and related paper documentation -- field notebooks, maps, and ledgerbooks -- created and collected by some of the premier geologists of the USGS from 1882 through the early 1920s. A database relating all of these materials can be viewed at https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/lake-superior-legacy-collection-website/.

Summary

This is a multifaceted collection of physical materials -- rock hand samples and rock thin sections-- and related paper documentation -- field notebooks, maps, and ledgerbooks -- created and collected by some of the premier geologists of the USGS from 1882 through the early 1920s. A database relating all of these materials can be viewed at https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/lake-superior-legacy-collection-website/. 

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• Hand sample (Sample ID 10000) from WGNHS station 82101145
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10003) from WGNHS station 82101147
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10006) from WGNHS station 82101150
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10007) from WGNHS station 82101152
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10008) from WGNHS station 82101153
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10009) from WGNHS station 82101154
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10010) from WGNHS station 82101157
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10012) from WGNHS station 82101164
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10013) from WGNHS station 82101170
• Hand sample (Sample ID 10015) from WGNHS station 82101171
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Contacts

Data Owner :

Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey

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Weblink to organization

https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/

Type: Web Application

Weblink to application

https://data.wgnhs.wisc.edu/lake-superior-legacy/

Material Request Instructions

Archivist, 3817 Mineral Point Road, Madison, WI, 53705, (608) 262 1705

Purpose

This collection contains the physical samples and paper records that remain of the US Geological Survey's Lake Superior Division that operated in Madison, Wisconsin from 1882 until 1905.

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Associated Items

• related Wisconsin GS Lake Superior legacy collection of field notebooks and ledgers
• related Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
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theme

• ndc_collection

Types

• Map Service
• OGC WFS Layer
• OGC WMS Layer
• OGC WMS Service

Provenance

The materials in this collection were produced by the geologists of the Lake Superior Division of the USGS between 1882 and 1922. They were collected principally in the areas of the US and Canada that bordered Lake Superior but there are samples from other parts of North and South America in the collection.