1996
Conversion of the information from the original folio to a computerized digital format was undertaken to facilitate the presentation and analysis of earth-science data. Digital maps can be displayed at any scale or projection, whereas a paper map has a fixed scale and projection. However, most of the maps on this disc are not intended to be used at any scale more detailed than 1:500,000.
A geographic information system (GIS) allows combining and overlaying of layers for analysis of spatial relations not readily apparent in the standard paper publication. Digital information on geology, geophysics, and geochemistry can be combined to create useful derivative products.
This CD-ROM contains most of the above maps; it lacks items 1 and 8 and the seismicity and aeromagnetic maps of item 3. The linework was digitized from preliminary and printed maps with GSMAP (Selner and Taylor, 1987), a USGS-authored program for map editing and publishing. Conversion from GSMAP to ARC/INFO was accomplished through the use of the GSMARC program (Green and Selner, 1988). The arcs and polygons were tagged using Alacarte (Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991).
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Errata and bug reports for DDS19
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds19/index.html
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