Digital Geologic Map of Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming

	     U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-0174

The digital information for this open file report is contained in this directory as follows:

	ofr99174.html				HTML file version of the the FGDC metadata.
	ofr99174.zip				ZIP file containing the data as described
						below.
	ofr99174.tar.gz				UNIX "tar" file that has been compressed by
						"gzip".
	ofr99174.pdf				Adobe Acrobat browse graphic redrawn at
						standard (8 1/2 x 11) page size.
	read1st.txt				This file.

The files "ofr99174.zip" and "ofr99174.tar.gz" contain the same data in the same directory structure.

The directory structure for the compressed data is:

	docs					This directory contains the documentation for
						this data set. All of the files start with
						"ofr99174". The file extensions explain the
						file type.
		file names

		ofr99174.html			HTML version of FGDC metatdata. 
		ofr99174_faq.html		FAQ form of FGDC metadata.
		ofr99174.met			Original text version of FGDC metadata. Used for 
						input to FGDC compliant software "mp" that 
						produces the above files and also is the
						bulk of the open file report.
		ofr99174.doc			MS Word 97 file of cover sheets for ofr99174.met.
		ofr99174.doc.txt		Text version of ofr99174.doc
		ynp.plt				HP RTL plot file generated by R.L.
						Christainsen.

	sdts					This directory contains the data in SDTS
						Topological Vector Profile format.

	export					This directory contains the file "geol83.e00"
						in non-compressed "E00" format from ESRI's
						ARC/INFO version 7.2.1.						

	shape					This directory contains the data in ArcView
						shape file format. Also included are the
						descriptive data as dbase "dbf " files.
		file prefix
		geol83pg			Polygon data.
		geol83ar			Arc data

		file name
		geol83pl.dbf			Descriptive data for the polygon attributes.
		geol83ll.dbf			Descriptive data for the arc attributes.