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Version 1.1
2006

Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina

(Digital Version)

By G.R. Robinson, Jr., F.G. Lesure, J.I. Marlowe II, N.K. Foley, and S.H. Clark

Above: Knoxville 1° x 2° Quadrangle geology and mineral deposits. (Click thumbnail for larger view.)

Abstract

The following geographic information system (GIS) data layers provide a digital format for the map plate in Bulletin 1979 (Robinson et al., 1991), “Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of the Knoxville 1 ° x 2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.”  This open-file report is meant to supplement Bulletin 1979. The Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle spans the Southern Blue Ridge physiographic province at its widest point from eastern Tennessee across western North Carolina to the northwest corner of South Carolina.  The quadrangle also contains small parts of the Valley and Ridge province in Tennessee and the Piedmont province in North and South Carolina.  The bedrock geology for the coverage area is provided as a polygon coverage with bedrock unit information included.  Mineral resources and geologic faults are provided as point and line files, respectively, to overlay the geology coverage.  Detailed geologic information is provided in the attribute tables for these files, and .avl legend files are provided.

Data Available in this Report

• Bulletin 1979 (Robinson et al., 1991): PDF format (4.6 MB) | Citation page
• Tabled Descriptions of Bedrock Lithology Units (online and in Excel format)
• GIS Data:
   
  •  Download compressed ArcView GIS project with all shapefiles and .avl legend files: (knoxville.zip, 1.1 MB)
    (To view project, extract zip files to a common location and select knoxville.apr from the OFR_knoxville folder.
    The project includes a printable 1:250,000-scale layout of the complete Knoxville map. (See Layout menu in project.)
  • For a coverage format of the data set, download and unzip the .e00 files: (knoxville_e00.zip, 425 KB)
  • Metadata available in compressed .txt files: (metadata.zip, 18 KB)

Direct questions and comments to:

Gilpin R. Robinson
U.S. Geological Survey
Email grobinso@usgs.gov  
Phone (703)-648-6113

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21 June 2011: Changed mention of .DJVU files to Citation mention instead. No links were modified.