Dataset Identification:
- The digitally compiled map includes geology, oil and gas field centerpoints, and geologic provinces of the Arctic (North Pole area encircled by 640 N Latitude). The GIS data sets were designed originally in ESRI's ARC/INFO ver. 8.0.1 and were published as part of a series of interim CD-ROM products of the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project (WEP). The goal of the WEP is to assess the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. Results of this assessment were reported in the year 2000 (see USGS DDS-60; http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-060/).
- Title Map Service Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Arctic
- publication Date 2004-01-01
- organisation Name U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team
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- organisation Name U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team
- organisation Name Feliks M. Persits and Gregory F. Ulmishek
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Theme keywords (theme):
geology
geologic map
geologic age
bathymetry
oil
gas
ArcView
ArcInfo
digital geologic map
U.S. Geological Survey
Earth Science
- Title None
Theme keywords (theme):
Oil shale resources
Oil sand resources
Natural gas resources
Economic geology
- Title Gateway to the Earth draft 9 28-Jun-2002
Theme keywords (theme):
geoscientificInformation
environment
- Title ArcIMS Metadata Server Theme Codes
Theme keywords (theme):
Earth Science
Natural Resources
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Geology
Oil
Natural Gas
Petroleum
Resource Assessment
- Title USGS Energy Program Themes Thesaurus
Theme keywords (theme):
oilgas
wep
worldgeologicmaps
arctic
- Title EnergyResourceActivities
Location keywords:
Arctic
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- maintenance or update frequency: notPlanned
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- Use limitation statement:
- This publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employee, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represent that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessary constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Although all data and software published are used by the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials and (or) the functioning of the software. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data, software, or related materials.
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- Use Constraints: Coverages containing shoreline, rivers and lakes, and country boundaries contain intellectual property of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), and are used with their permission. Coverages containing oil and gas field centerpoints contain intellectual property of IHS Energy Group (Petroconsultants), and are used with their permission. End users are permitted to use these data sets for their own internal use, including derivative work, but are prohibited from redistributing these data individually or in a derivative work to third parties.
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Resource extent
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- westBoundLongitude -178.825087
- eastBoundLongitude 178.927956
- northBoundLatitude 89.999989
- southBoundLatitude 53.791686
Geographic Bounding Box - Temporal Extent
Geographic Extent
2003-01-01
- General guidance - Gregory Ulmishek Digital Geologic Map Compilation in Arc/Info - Feliks Persits Legend design -Feliks Persits and Gregory Ulmishek Geologic Attribution - Feliks Persits Implementation of Metadata- Feliks Persits Arcview and ArcExplorer projects - Feliks Persits Map design and verification - Feliks Persits and Gregory Ulmishek CD-ROM implementation - Feliks Persits Internet Map Service - Feliks Persits, Heather Mitchell, Laura R.H. Biewick
- individual Name Dr. Thomas Ahlbrandt
- organisation Name U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resource Team
- position Name Project Chief
- Contact information
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- Telephone
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- Voice 303-236-5776
- Fax 303-236-8822
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- Denver Federal Center, MS 939 P.O.Box 25046, Denver, Colorado, 80225 Country USA
- electronic Mail Address datamgt@usgs.gov
Vector spatial representation information
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- Geometric Objects
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- geometric Object Type complex
- geometric Object Count 11000
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- source description Source Contribution: Paper map sheet was used as the source for the ARC/INFO geology coverage geoarcst. Source Type paper
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- Scale denominator: 6,000,000
- source citation
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- Title Circumpolar Geologic Map of the Arctic, Map 1765 A
- publication Date 1989-01-01
- Edition 1989
- presentationForm mapDigital
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- organisation Name Geological Survey of Canada
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- Address
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- , Geological Survey of Canada
- organisation Name Geological Survey of Canada
Resource extent
- Temporal Extent
1989-01-01
- source description Source Contribution: Centerpoints of oil and gas fields were converted to ArcInfo coverage, reprojected to Polar Stereographic projection, and clipped by extent of geology coverage. All the attributes except standard GIS items were deleted.Source Type Installed Enterprise Database
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- Title Probe 4.0 World Oil and Gas Database
- publication Date 2001-01-01
- presentationForm tableDigital
- other Citation Details World oil and gas field centerpoints were clipped by Arctic geology coverage. All the attributes except standard ArcView items were deleted.
- cited responsible party - publisher
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- organisation Name Petroleum Information/Dwights LLC d/b/a/IHS Energy Group
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- Address
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- , Englewood, Colorado, USA (this version)
- organisation Name IHS Energy Group (Petroconsultants).
Resource extent
- Temporal Extent
2001-01-01
- source description Source Contribution: The external source of bathymetric data in ArcView shape file format batharcst.shpSource Type Internet
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- Scale denominator: 6000000
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- Title International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)
- publication Date 2001-01-01
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- presentationForm VECTOR DATA SET
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- Issue IBCAO Version 1.0 created 2001-07-11
- organisation Name U.S. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
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- organisation Name International Oceanographic Commission (IOC), U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Resource extent
- Temporal Extent
2001-07-11
- source description Source Contribution: Geologic Map of Canada used as reference source in verification and correction geologic attributes of Arctic geology ARC/INFO coverage.Source Type CD-ROM
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- Scale denominator: 5,000,000
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- Title Geological Map of Canada, map D1860A (CD-ROM)
- publication Date 1996-01-01
- Edition 1996
- presentationForm mapDigital
- cited responsible party - publisher
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- organisation Name Geological Survey of Canada
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- , Canada
- organisation Name Geological Survey of Canada
Resource extent
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1996-01-01
- source description Source Contribution: The external reference source for image georeferencing in ARC/INFO. shorearcst - shorelines hydlarcst - river and lakes polarcst - country boundaries Source Type CD-ROM
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- Scale denominator: 3000000
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- Title ArcWorld 1:3 million geographic data set.
- publication Date 9999-01-01
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- presentationForm mapDigital
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- Name ArcWorld
- Issue ArcWorld 1:3M, ArcWorld Supplement
- organisation Name ESRI
- Contact information
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- Address
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- , Redlands, CA, USA
- organisation Name ESRI
Resource extent
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9999-01-01
- name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- evaluation Method Description The scanned gray-scale image of original paper map was transformed to Polar Stereographic projection by polynomial transformation of second order with RMS error not more than 2500 m (0.37 mm in original paper map). That was the first step. The second step was a piece-wise rubber sheeting transformation of the image using ESRI's shoreline as a reference. There are three main considerations to assess overall positional accuracy: 1. Thickness of a shoreline on the image varies from 2500 to 4500 meters. Therefore maximum shift of a line in a coverage from centerline of its copy on image should not exceed 1250-2250 m. Since shoreline has been used to georeference image, this value affects overall accuracy. 2. Shoreline has been digitized from the original geologic map and based on data from General Bathymetric Map of Ocean (1983 data). ESRI shoreline is based on the Digital Chart of the World (1992-1996 data) and is more detailed and updated. Because of these different compilations there was mismatch in large scale patterns of two shorelines with good general match. 3. Overall accuracy is estimated by measuring distance between these two shoreline versions at randomly chosen locations. The RMS error is 2450 m (0.36 mm of original paper map) with maximum mismatch of 6.5 km. This mismatch does not include areas where newer ESRI shoreline reveals new details. The final georeferenced image was used as a backdrop in ARCEDIT digitizing.
- name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy
- measure Description Overall relative position error was estimated by comparing a randomly selected set of locations on the ESRI shoreline coverage to the shoreline on the final geology coverage. RMS error is 2.45 km (0.36 mm of the original paper map).
- Quantitative Result
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- result value 2.45 km
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- evaluation Method Description All unique geologic age subdivisions (104 values) plus eight (8) lithologic subdivisions from the original geologic map were reproduced in ArcInfo coverage.
- evaluation Method Description All unique geologic age subdivisions (104 values) plus eight (8) lithologic subdivisions from the original geologic map were reproduced in ArcInfo coverage.
- measure Description The data set originated from a collection of ARC/INFO coverages that were topologically consistent. The fuzzy tolerance was consistent through each processing step (200 m or 0.002 degree). Based on this fuzzy tolerance value, all undershoots and overshoots were detected and deleted. Execution of Arc/Info CLEAN command indicated the original coverage is topologically clean. Duplicate lines, overshoots and undershoots, if any, were corrected. All polygons are closed and labeled. Polygons at the edge of the map are closed with a map outer polygon.
- name Of Measure Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
- measure Description This is a deductive estimate based on a polygon overlay of a coverage plot and the original materials. Checks by both the compiler and independent reviewers identified labeling and classification errors which were corrected. Any remaining errors are most likely a result of misinterpretation of source data.
- evaluation Method Description Overall accuracy is based on accuracy of general geology coverage. Because all the attributes are of character type, only correctness of polygon labeling can be provided (see below). 1. Attribute items "AGE_OR", "LI_TYPE" are abstracted from fill colors and patterns of source map denoting geologic age. Offshore and onshore units are attributed separately and can be displayed selectively by "POS" item. 2. Rigorous verification and comparison of geologic attributes with other paper and digital maps were carried out on Canadian and Alaskan parts of the map. 3. Standard verification of attribute reliability was performed with the Arc/Info command LABELERRORS to find polygons without assigned character value or with more than one value. A comparison between color plot and original paper map was carried out by on-screen visual examination. The coverages were superimposed on a registered and rectified gray-scale scanned image of the original map and inspected. All evident errors detected in attributes were corrected. 4. Two attribute items have been added: ERROR and CHECK. The first stands for evident error on original paper map, the second one - geologic attribute was assigned with level of uncertainty (color and pattern do not coincide).
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- result value good
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Resource distribution information
Distributor
- individual Name Christa Lopez
- organisation Name U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Team
- position Name Team Secretary
- Contact information
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- Telephone
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- Voice 303.236.1647
- Address
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- U.S.Geological Survey, Box 25046 MS 939 Building 25 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO, 80225 Country U.S.A.
- electronic Mail Address eteamdisks@usgs.gov
- fees none
- Ordering Instructions Access Instructions: RESTful access to this map using the handle provided Use this URI to view the map service using an online interactive mapping application Ordering Instructions: These products can be accessed freely using any one of the Network_Resource_Name URLs above. Each of these provide access to various formats of these data. Custom Order Process: Send email to datamgt@usgs.gov or call the USGS Central Energy Team main office at 303-236-1644.
- Format name ArcGIS Server REST
- Format version
- Format name Interactive Mapping Application
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- Linkage for online resource
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- name ArcGIS Server REST
- URL: http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services/geology/arctic/MapServer
- link function
- Description ESRI ArcGIS Server REST API Handle
- name Interactive Mapping Application
- URL: http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/envision/index.html?widgets=geologymaps
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- Description Online applicatoin available to view map services
- maintenance or update frequency: annually
- notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
- notes: Last Metadata Review Date: 2005-01-19
- individual Name Laura R.H. Biewick
- organisation Name U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resource Team
- position Name GIS Coordinator
- Contact information
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- Telephone
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- Voice 303-236-7773
- Address
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, 80225 Country USA
- electronic Mail Address datamgt@usgs.gov
- For inquiries regarding this document, please include the metadata contact person's name, dataset name, and publication series and number.