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Former Soviet Union Geology, 2001
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Feliks M. Persits
- Originator
- Douglas W. Steinshouer
- Originator
- Gregory F. Ulmishek
- Publication Date
- 20010600
- Title
- Former Soviet Union Geology, 2001
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Denver, CO
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/2b471a9d-1308-42f6-acbb-ae03e43a2f01/file/20281c5a-c432-4e4d-b22e-2daff971f345
- Abstract
- This shapefile contains arcs, polygons and polygon labels that describe surface geology in the countries comprising the Former Soviet Union. (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.) This data set was originally published as U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 97-470E, Maps Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Former Soviet Union.
- Purpose
- This spatial dataset is intended to delineate surface geology of the Former Soviet Union in U.S.G.S. Open File Report 01-104, Coal Quality and Resources of the Former Soviet Union - An ArcView Project.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 19980000
- Bounding Box
- West
- 19.8629
- East
- 179.7787
- North
- 81.8579
- South
- 35.1995
- Theme Keyword
- Geology
- Geologic age
- Surface geology
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Eurasia
- Asia
- Europe
- Former Soviet Union
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Russian Federation
- Russia
- Tajikstan
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- AA
- AJ
- BE
- EN
- GG
- KZ
- KG
- LG
- LU
- MD
- RS
- TI
- TX
- UP
- UZ
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- Portions of this dataset covering coastline and country boundariescontain intellectual property of Environmental Systems ResearchInstitute, Inc. (ESRI), and are used with permission. Endusers are permitted to use these data sets for their owninternal use, including derivative work, but are prohibitedfrom using and redistributing these data individually or ina derivative work to third parties. Please refer to the"ATTACHMENT B" file (attach_b.txt) on this CD-ROM for furtherinformation on ESRI's license agreement.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Princeton University Library
- Contact Telephone
- 609-258-6804
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- shawatw@princeton.edu
- Hours of Service
- 8:45 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday-Friday
- Credit
- Feliks M. Persits - Digitization, Quality control, documentation Douglas W. Steinshouer - Digitization, data conversion, documentation Gregory F. Ulmishek - Determination of geologic age units
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6001) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- All the attributes other than standard Arc/Info attributes are of character type.
- Logical Consistency Report
- Polygon topology exists. Each polygon has one unique label point with unique id, there are no dangles. The coverage is topologically cleaned and built with Region topology in Arc/Info 7.1.2.
- Completeness Report
- N/A
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- 1. Original geological maps are of 750 meter maximum accuracy (0.1 mm on paper map of 1:7,500,000 scale) 2. Scanned images are of 200 dot/inch resolution (0.1 mm on paper). Fuzzy tolerance for CLEAN program in ARC/INFO is set to 1500 m (two pixels). 3. Several steps are taken to vectorize scanned images. The projection and coordinate system for the original map are not given. Therefore it is necessary to georeference the map to real world coordinates. This is done as follows: 3.1. The latitude/longitude graticule with cell size 4 * 6 degree is projected to Equidistant Conic projection and then used to create ARC/INFO point coverage. That point coverage is used to create "to - from" links by ARC/INFO CONTROLPOINTS program. 3.2 A gray-scale scanned image of the original paper map is transformed to Equidistant Conic projection by ARC/INFO GRIDWARP program (polynomial of the second order) using the "to - from" links created by CONTROLPOINTS program. 3.3 The scanned image from the second step is vectorized by the method of extraction of linear features described by F.Persits, 1997, (USGS open-file report OF-97-713), and then corrected by hands-on digitization. 3.4 A series of piecewise "rubbersheet" transformations are applied to the final ARC/INFO coverage. The ARC/INFO coverages that are used for transformation were ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3 million GIS cartographic layers. Overall position error is estimated with a randomly selected set of locations on the ESRI coverages and comparing the same locations on the final geology coverage (geo1). RMS error is 4.8 km (0.64 mm of the original paper map) with maximum error about 12 km (1.6 mm on original paper map).
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- Vsesoyuzniy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Geologicheskiy Institute (VSEGEI).All Union Scientific Research Geologic Institute of the U.S.S.R.
- Publication Date
- 19660000
- Title
- Geologicheskaya Karta S.S.S.R. - Geologic Map of the U.S.S.R.
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- Map (2 sheets)
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
- Publisher
- Ministry of Geology of the U.S.S.R.
- Other Citation Details
- Published in Russian
- Source Scale Denominator
- 7500000
- Type of Source Media
- Paper
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19660000
- Source Currentness Reference
- Date of publication
- Contribution
- Location of geologic contacts and geologic age of units.
- Source
- Originator
- Feliks M. Persits
- Originator
- Douglas W. Steinshouer
- Originator
- Gregory F. Ulmishek
- Publication Date
- 19980000
- Title
- geo1Geology of the Former Soviet Union
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- Arc/Info coverage
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Denver, CO
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Online Linkage
- http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/WorldEnergy/OF97-470E/index.html
- Source Scale Denominator
- 7500000
- Type of Source Media
- CD-ROM
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 19980000
- Source Currentness Reference
- Date of Publication
- Contribution
- Surface Geology of the Former Soviet Union
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- Pulkovo Datum 1942
- Ellipsoid Name
- Krasovsky
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378245
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.3
- Distribution Information
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090227
- Metadata Review Date
- 20010400
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Princeton University Library
- Contact Person
- Tsering Wangyal Shawa
- Contact Position
- Data Manager - CERT
- Contact Address
- Address
- Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center, The Lewis Library, Room 228, Princeton University
- City
- Princeton
- State or Province
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 609-258-6804
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- shawatw@princeton.edu
- Hours of Service
- 8:45 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday-Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile