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The Glacial Environments and Surficial Sediments geodatabase (GESS) data includes a polygon file with multiple attributes which describe the lithology, geomorphology, and related depositional environment of Quaternary-age surfical sediments in the glaciated conterminous United States. These attributes include: the map unit (GESS_MU), a geomorphic modifier (GESS_Modifier), a sediment stratification indicator (SedStrat), and a a sediment texture classification (Texture6). Possible GESS_MU values include: alluvial sediment, colluvial sediment, eolian sediment, lacustrine sediment, marine sediment, organic sediment, outwash, ice-contact deposits, island, residual soils, soliflucted sediment, till, bedrock, fill, and...
Tags: confined and unconfined aquifers,
geoscientificInformation,
glaciated United States,
glaciology,
hydrogeologic framework, All tags...
hydrogeologic terranes,
hydrogeology,
surficial geologic maps,
surficial sediments,
water use, Fewer tags
The bedrock geology for the Glacial Environments and Surficial Sediments (GESS) geodatabase is an amalgamation of several “Integrated Geologic Map Databases for the United States” (Dicken and others, 2008; Ludington and others, 2007; Nicholson and others, 2007-1,-2,-3; Stoeser and others, 2007). Using the LITH62 and LITH62MINO attribute values from that series of maps and the associated lithclass 6.2 code text descriptions from the geodatabase, spatial elements of that geodatabase were grouped. A new GESS attribute was created, “Litho_class,” and each spatial element was given a Litho_class value of non-carbonate sedimentary rock, carbonate rock, non-carbonate metamorphic rock, volcanic rock, plutonic rock, or unconsolidataed...
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New York,
North Dakota,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
South Dakota,
Vermont,
Washington,
Wisconsin,
bedrock geologic units,
carbonate rock,
geological maps,
geoscientificInformation,
glaciated United States,
hydrogeologic framework,
hydrogeology, Fewer tags
The Hydrogeologic Terranes dataset includes separate polygon and line feature classes. The polygon feature class divides the glaciated United States into seventeen distinct terranes using a geologically based approach. Each terrane contains Quaternary sediment that is derived from a common depositional history and can be characterized by texture and thickness. Delineation of hydrogeologic terranes was based on an interpretation of existing geologic mapping of surficial and Quaternary deposits, and thickness of unconsolidated material. Overall thickness of Quaternary sediment was used to qualitatively rank the generalized complexity of geologic framework in each terrane: "lower" complexity (assigned a terrane code...
Tags: confined and unconfined aquifers,
geoscientificInformation,
glaciated United States,
glaciology,
hydrogeologic framework, All tags...
hydrogeologic terranes,
hydrogeology,
surficial geologic maps,
surficial sediments,
water use, Fewer tags
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