Geological Investigations Section

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Geological Investigations Section. National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP). STATEMAP - State geological survey projects (each federal dollar matched by state dollar) FEDMAP - USGS geologic mapping projects - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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History of the National Cooperative GeologicHistory of the National Cooperative GeologicMapping Program and STATEMAPMapping Program and STATEMAP

STATEMAPSTATEMAP

STATEMAP Review Panel*STATEMAP Review Panel*

Components of STATEMAP projects:Components of STATEMAP projects:

Start with Start with incorporating incorporating all existing all existing data into a data into a GIS projectGIS project

Newly Newly collected collected

field data and field data and new cores are new cores are incorporated incorporated

into GIS into GIS projectproject

Top of Rock Top of Rock map is map is

generatedgenerated

Overburden Overburden Thickness map Thickness map

is generatedis generated

Geology from Scott, et al., (2001) Geology from Green, et al., (2009)