Data notes for: Geologic map of the Van Buren South quadrangle, Carter County, Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I-2803

David J.Weary and J. S. Schindler,2004

All data is projected to UTM, Zone 15N, Datum NAD83, units meters

File Structure:


Geologic GIS data compressed into file : GIS_data.zip


	/shapefiles/ (ESRI shapefiles for vector geologic data files)

		bed_contacts (line layer for bedrock contacts)
		bedding (point layer with measured bedding attitudes)
		bedrock (polygon layer with areas of bedrock units delineated)
		ce_sand (line layer indicating location of observed outcrop of Eminence Dolomite sandstone beds)
		crypto (point layer of locations of observed cryptozooan chert in the Gasconade Dolomnite)
		defbnds (point layer of locations of observed sandstone float with deformation shear bands)
		faults (line layer with location of mapped faults)
		ironmines (point layer with location of abandoned iron mines or prospects)
		ironpoints (point layer with location of observed iron mineralization)
		joints (point layer with joint measurement data)
		karst_pts (point layer with location of observed sinkholes less than 30 feet across)
		residuum (polygon layer with areas of residual units delineated)
		sinkholes (line layer with outlines of drainages to observed sinkholes greater thatn 30 feet across)
		springs (point layer with locations of observed springs)
		struxcont (line layer defining elevation on the base of the Roubidoux Formation)
		surficial (polygon layer delineating areas of surficial deposits)
		wells (point layer with locations of wells)

	/drg/
		vbn_base (Georegistered image of the Van Buren South 7 1/2 minute quadrangle topographic map)

	vbs_geology.mxd (ArcMap 8.3 map file to display data layers)





Metadata compressed into file metadata.zip (metadata files to accompany vector geologic data layers)

		

VBS_map_plate.zip (Adobe Acrobat .pdf file for viewing and plotting the map plate as published by the U.S. Geological Survey)

VBS_thumb.jpg (thumbnail image file of only the geologic map portion of the plate)

README.txt (this readme file)

This publication may be found on the internet at:  http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2803/