New digital data base helps to map North America

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A new effort is underway to compile an upgraded digital magnetic anomaly data base and map for the North American continent by 2002. This program is a joint effort by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and Consejo de Recursos Minerales de Mexico (CRM). An integrated, readily accessible, modern digital data base of magnetic anomaly data spanning North America will be a powerful tool for evaluating the structure, geologic processes, and tectonic evolution of the continent, and may also be used to help resolve societal and scientific issues that span national boundaries. Maps derived from the digital data base will provide a view of continentalscale trends not available in individual data sets, help link widely separated areas of out-crop, and unify disparate geologic studies.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title New digital data base helps to map North America
Series title Eos Science News
DOI 10.1029/01EO00190
Volume 82
Issue 30
Publication Date October 19, 2006
Year Published 2001
Language English
Publisher American Geophysical Union
Description 7 p.
First page 325
Last page 330
Other Geospatial North America
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