Preliminary Geologic Map of the Bowen Mountain Quadrangle,
Grand and Jackson Counties, Colorado 

By

James C. Cole, William A. Braddock, and Theodore R. Brandt

This database, identified as OFR 2011-1111, has been approved for release and
publication by the Director of the USGS.  Although this database has been 
subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves 
the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review.  
Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United 
States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its 
authorized or unauthorized use.

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the 
U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty, expressed or implied is made regarding the 
display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific 
purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute such warranty.  The U.S. 
Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the 
data described and/or contained herein.

Any use of trade, product or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and 
does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, 
it also contains copyrighted material as noted in the text.  Permission to 
reproduce copyrighted items for other than personal use must be secured from the 
copyright owner.

The database can be downloaded via the Web from 
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1111/.  ArcInfo export files and ArcView 
shapefiles may be extracted from a zip-compressed file (OF2011-1111.zip).  In 
addition, an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file (OF2011-1111_map.pdf) can 
be downloaded, from which paper copies may be printed.  

The database contact is:      Theodore R. Brandt 
                              303-236-1901
                              tbrandt@usgs.gov
                              U.S. Geological Survey
                              Box 25046, Mail Stop 980
                              Denver, CO  80225

The data were compiled from field mapping.  J. M. O'Neill and K. S. Kellogg, 
both of the U.S. Geological Survey, reviewed the geologic map. 

This geospatial database consists of ArcInfo export files (.e00) and ArcView 
shapefiles contained in a zip archive.  Both compressed archive files contain 
both types of geospatial database files.  See the list below.  Please refer to 
the file OF2011-1111.met for detailed metadata documentation for this geospatial 
database. 

List of files:
OF2011-1111_map.pdf
OF2011-1111.met
bowenr.tif
bowenr.tfw
bowhlsd.tif
bowhlsd.tfw

OF2011-1111.zip:
   00Readme.txt
   OF2011-1111.met
   e00 directory:
      bowgeo.e00
      bowfold.e00
      bowpts.e00
      bowage.e00
      bowwell.e00
      bowhlsd.e00
      wpgcmykg.shd.e00
      geol_sfo.lin.e00
      import.aml
  shapefiles directory:
bowgeo.shp (contains polygon attributes for the bowgeo database)
bowgeo.shx
bowgeo.dbf
bowgeo.prj
bowgeol.shp (contains line attributes for the bowgeo database)
bowgeol.shx
bowgeol.dbf
bowgeol.prj
bowfold.shp (contains line attributes for the bowfold database)
bowfold.shx
bowfold.dbf
bowfold.prj
bowpts.shp (contains point attributes for bowpts database)
bowpts.shx
bowpts.dbf
bowpts.prj
bowage.shp (contains point attributes for bowage database)
bowage.shx
bowage.dbf
bowage.prj
bowwell.shp (contains point attributes for bowwell database)
bowwell.shx
bowwell.dbf
bowwell.prj

OF2011-1111.gdb directory (contains GIS data as geodatabase feature classes)

The main product is a Portable Document Format (.pdf) map,
which requires Adobe Acrobat for viewing. Acrobat software
runs on a variety of systems, and is available for download
free of charge from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com.