ufgel

Metadata:

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• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Michael H. Trippi

Publication_Date: 2014

Title: ufgel

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1708/ii/downloads/coal/upper_freeport_coal_bed/ufgel.zip>

Online_Linkage:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1708/ii/downloads/coal/upper_freeport_coal_bed/ufgel.kmz>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Ruppert, Leslie F.

Originator: Ryder, Robert T.

Publication_Date: 2014

Title:

Coal and Petroleum Resources in the Appalachian Basin: Distribution, Geologic Framework, and Geochemical Character

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Professional Paper

Issue_Identification: 1708

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/pp1708I.1>

Description:

Abstract:

This dataset represents counties limited to the extent of the Upper Freeport coal bed resource areas attributed with statistics on the thickness of the Upper Freeport coal bed, its elevation, and overburden thickness, in feet.

Purpose:

This dataset can be used to display counties limited to the extent of the Upper Freeport coal bed resource areas attributed with statistics on the thickness of the Upper Freeport coal bed. It is available in shapefile and Zipped Keyhole Markup Language (KMZ) formats, and can be viewed using ArcGIS, Google Earth, or any software package that supports these data formats.

Supplemental_Information:

The file has been generalized from detailed geologic coverages found in Professional Paper 1625-C. The purpose of Professional Paper 1625 is to release the interpretation of assessment and modeling data for the top-producing coal beds and zones in the northern and central Appalachian basin coal regions. The dataset has been generalized and is useful only in regional studies.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2000

Currentness_Reference: data collection and collation period

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.695107

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -78.193665

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.353553

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.405601

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:

Coal Resource Classification of the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Circular 891.

Theme_Keyword: Coal

Theme_Keyword: Coal Resources

Theme_Keyword: Coal Thickness

Theme_Keyword: Bituminous

Theme_Keyword: Isopach

Theme_Keyword: Outcrop

Theme_Keyword: USGS

Theme_Keyword: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

Theme_Keyword: Ohio Division of Geological Survey

Theme_Keyword: Maryland Geological Survey

Theme_Keyword: Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System

Place_Keyword: Appalachians

Place_Keyword: Maryland

Place_Keyword: Ohio

Place_Keyword: West Virginia

Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania

Place_Keyword: MUSKINGUM County OH

Place_Keyword: MONROE County OH

Place_Keyword: TAYLER County WV

Place_Keyword: MARION County WV

Place_Keyword: MONONGALIA County WV

Place_Keyword: GREENE County PA

Place_Keyword: BROOKE County WV

Place_Keyword: TUCKER County WV

Place_Keyword: GRANT County WV

Place_Keyword: MINERAL County WV

Place_Keyword: GARRETT County MD

Place_Keyword: SOMERSET County PA

Place_Keyword: CAMBRIA County PA

Place_Keyword: PRESTON County WV

Place_Keyword: FAYETTE County PA

Place_Keyword: BARBOUR County WV

Place_Keyword: UPSHUR County WV

Place_Keyword: LAWRENCE County OH

Place_Keyword: GALLIA County OH

Place_Keyword: JACKSON County WV

Place_Keyword: MEIGS County OH

Place_Keyword: ATHENS County OH

Place_Keyword: WASHINGTON County OH

Place_Keyword: MORGAN County OH

Place_Keyword: HARRISON County WV

Place_Keyword: NOBLE County OH

Place_Keyword: GUERNSEY County OH

Place_Keyword: BELMONT County OH

Place_Keyword: OHIO County WV

Place_Keyword: HARRISON County OH

Place_Keyword: CARROLL County OH

Place_Keyword: JEFFERSON County OH

Place_Keyword: MARSHALL County WV

Place_Keyword: BEAVER County PA

Place_Keyword: ALLEGHENY County PA

Place_Keyword: ARMSTRONG County PA

Place_Keyword: INDIANA County PA

Place_Keyword: WESTMORELAND County PA

Place_Keyword: ALLEGANY County MD

Place_Keyword: LEWIS County WV

Place_Keyword: HANCOCK County WV

Place_Keyword: WASHINGTON County PA

Place_Keyword: VINTON County OH

Place_Keyword: BUTLER County PA

Place_Keyword: CLARION County PA

Place_Keyword: CLEARFIELD County PA

Place_Keyword: COLUMBIANA County OH

Place_Keyword: COSHOCTON County OH

Place_Keyword: ELK County PA

Place_Keyword: BEDFORD County PA

Place_Keyword: HOCKING County OH

Place_Keyword: HOLMES County OH

Place_Keyword: LAWRENCE County PA

Place_Keyword: MAHONING County OH

Place_Keyword: PERRY County OH

Place_Keyword: STARK County OH

Place_Keyword: TUSCARAWAS County OH

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus:

Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (GNULEX), 1996; Stratigraphic Nomenclature Databases for the United States, Its Ppossessions, and Territories, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-6, release 3.

Stratum_Keyword: Upper Freeport coal bed

Stratum_Keyword: Upper Freeport coal

Stratum_Keyword: Conemaugh Group

Stratum_Keyword: Allegheny Group

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (GNULEX), 1996;

Temporal_Keyword: Pennsylvanian

Temporal_Keyword: Middle Pennsylvanian

Temporal_Keyword: Paleozoic

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: To be used for regional analysis only

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Michael H. Tripp

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: MS 956, National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

City: Reston

State_or_Province: Virginia

Postal_Code: 20192

Country: United States

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-4597

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6419

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mtrippi@usgs.gov

Data_Set_Credit:

The stratigraphic data stored in the National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) were submitted since the middle 1970's through State cooperative programs. It is recommended that newer data be obtained from the State geological surveys that are the sources of the original information in this study.

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; Esri ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Deductive Estimate: Generalized with 250 meter weedtolerance. Surface elevations of boreholes or measurement points were not compared to any digital or paper reference, therefore elevations have unknown measurement errors.

Logical_Consistency_Report: Topologically clean

Completeness_Report:

The polygons in this coverage are a general representation of county-based statistical information for this coal bed within the geographic areas of resource calculation for the 2000 National Coal Assessment. Some small areas of coal outcrop may have been lost in the generalization process and will not match the detailed coverages available for this coal bed elsewhere in Professional Paper 1625-C. All internal no-coal and thin-coal areas have been dissolved for display purposes.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

County lines are based on 1:125,000 DLG data.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Statistical values are based on attributes of polygons that are the average of the bounding contour line values; thus accuracy will vary based on the contour interval of the geologic phenomena being described.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Gridding of Upper Freeport point source data and digitized arcs from published maps to create structure grid on the top of the coal (200-foot contour interval, ARC/INFO coverage c9011st.e00), thickness (1.17-foot contour interval, ARC/INFO coverage c9011is.e00) in Albers projection.

Process_Date: 1998

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Imported 1:250,000 scale DEM's and 1:100,000 scale DEM's into ARC lattices to create topographic surface grid, from which the structure contour grid was subtracted to create overburden thickness, ARC/INFO coverage c9011ob. These values were contoured according to criteria from USGS Circular 891.

Process_Date: 1998

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Clipped overburden contours to the known resource areas defined in ARC/INFO coverage C9011oc.e00. The clipping coverage also provided the zero overburden thickness line (outcrop). Manual editing required for labels in some areas.

Process_Date: 1998

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Unioned polygon coverages for overburden, counties, coal thickness, mined areas, reliability, and resource areas. Calculated short tons in each polygon based on area in square meters, thickness of coal, and tonnage factor into ARC/INFO coverage c9011fin.

Process_Date: 1998

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

In ArcView, generated mean, minimum and maximum values for coal thickness and minimum and maximum overburden values from unioned coverage by county - stored in .dbf file.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Intersected county coverage with coal structure contour coverage. In ArcView, generated minimum and maximum coal elevation statistics by county - stored in .dbf file.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Generalized the resource area coverage for coal bed using 250 meter weed tolerance and pointremove option. Cleaned and built topology.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Intersected a county coverage with the generalized resource areas. Dropped unnecessary items from intersected cover and dissolved on FIPS code to remove internal no-coal areas.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Created a shape file from the combined county/resource area coverage. In ArcView, dissolved on the FIPS code so that all the individual polygons for a county became one polygon- created a new shape file.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Joined the *.dbf files of county statistics with the last county shape file using FIPS or county name.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Projected cover to geographic.

Process_Date: 2000

Process_Step:

Process_Description: ArcInfo Export file ufgel was saved in shapefile format.

Process_Date: 2005

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001

Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: ufgel

Entity_Type_Definition:

A dataset representing counties limited to the extent of the Upper Freeport coal bed resource areas.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ST

Attribute_Definition: State abbreviation.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: MD

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Maryland

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: OH

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Ohio

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: PA

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Pennsylvania

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: WV

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: West Virginia

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CNTYNAME

Attribute_Definition: County name.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AVE_THICK

Attribute_Definition:

Average of thickness values (in feet) of polygons within county (no-coal areas of 0 thickness excluded)

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MIN_THICK

Attribute_Definition: Minimum thickness values (in feet) of polygons within county

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MAX_THICK

Attribute_Definition: Maximum thickness values (in feet) of polygons within county

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MIN_OVB

Attribute_Definition:

Overburden thickness miniumum (in feet). Categories defined in USGS Circular 891.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MAX_OVB

Attribute_Definition:

Overburden thickness maximum (in feet). Categories defined in USGS Circular 891.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MIN_ELEV

Attribute_Definition:

Minimum of polygon elevation values (in feet), which are the average value of bounding elevation contours (no-coal areas of 0 thickness excluded) within each county.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MAX_ELEV

Attribute_Definition:

Maximum of polygon elevation values (in feet), which are the average value of bounding elevation contours (no-coal areas of 0 thickness excluded) within each county.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: String of characters.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: USGS Information Services

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: Information Services

Address: Box 25286 Denver Federal Center

City: Denver

State_or_Province: Colorado

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: United States

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 303-202-4693

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ask@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Distribution_Liability:

This publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Although all data and software published are used by the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials and (or) the functioning of the software. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data, software, or related materials.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Shapefile

Format_Information_Content:

A shapefile representing the Upper Freeport coal beds in the Appalachian basin.

Transfer_Size: 0.921

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1708/ii/downloads/coal/upper_freeport_coal_bed/ufgel.zip>

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Zipped Keyhole Markup Language

Format_Information_Content:

A Zipped Keyhole Markup Language (KMZ) file representing the Upper Freeport coal beds in the Appalachian basin.

Transfer_Size: 0.921

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1708/ii/downloads/coal/upper_freeport_coal_bed/ufgel.kmz>

Fees: None

Ordering_Instructions:

This product can be downloaded individually using any one of the digital forms from the Network_Resource_Name URLs above. Each of these URLs may provide access to various formats of the same product. To order the larger work, please use the contact information provided above.

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2014

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20141204

Metadata_Review_Date: 20141204

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Michael H. Trippi

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: MS 956, National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

City: Reston

State_or_Province: Virginia

Postal_Code: 20192

Country: United States

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-4597

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703-648-6419

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mtrippi@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time