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Posted by: SkyeLab Mar 9 2007, 01:05 PM

Hi Folks,

Thought some of you Rock Scientists would find the following interesting:

BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6434011.stm

OneGeology homepage: http://www.onegeology.org/

Cheers

Brian

Posted by: edstrick Mar 10 2007, 09:41 AM

Some 6 or 12 months ago, I saw a report of a new ??? Geologic Society of America ??? "Geologic Map of North America" (or of the United States" that was the first new "full-up" map compliation since the 1960's or so... Vastly more detail and units and actual formation ages and stuff, also sea floor and the like geology. I made a note <now buried somewhere> that that was a "should get". It sounded really worthwhile.

Posted by: ElkGroveDan Mar 10 2007, 06:04 PM

If you see that US map again, I'd be interested in tracking it down too.

Posted by: Gray Mar 12 2007, 01:35 PM

The US Geological Survey has an online geologic map of the United States.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/atlas/geologic/

It has some interesting features.

Posted by: chuckclark Nov 23 2007, 06:19 PM

Seems like these folks have already done it, just not a web available version. What would be different in the OneGeology Project, more detail?

The Geological Map of the World, at the 1:25 M scale (3 sheets) and at a reduced format (1:50 M) on a single sheet, more fitted to teaching purposes. A digital interactive version of the map is also available on CD. – Dr. Philippe Rossi CGMW 77, rue Claude-Bernard 75015 Paris, France Phone: +33 1 47 07 22 84 Fax : +33 1 4 3 36 95 18 E-mail: ccgm@club-internet.fr www.cgmw.org