{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Garth E Graham", "hasEmail": "mailto:ggraham@usgs.gov"}, "description": "These data provide geologic information, including generalized lithology, geologic age, and paleo-latitude and -longitude of geologic units, for the United States, Canada, and Australia, in an H3 Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) hexagonal format (Uber Technologies Inc., 2020) with an average hexagon area of 5.16 square kilometers. The data are presented as the shapefile version of ASCII data developed by Lawley and others (2021) for prospectivity modeling of basin-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Lawley and others, 2022).\nReferences\nLawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Gadd, M.G., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., and Czarnota, K., 2021, Datasets to support prospectivity modelling for sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems: Natural Resources Canada Open File 8836, https://doi.org/10.4095/329203.\nLawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635.\nUber Technologies Inc., 2020, H3: A hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system: GitHub Repository, https://github.com/uber/h3.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.623a26e4d34e915b67cdf5f4.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_623a26e4d34e915b67cdf5f4", "keyword": ["United States", "Discrete Global Grid System", "igneous rocks", "Targeted Geoscience Initiative", "geospatial datasets", "lithology", "Uber grid", "Mineral Resources Program", "TGI", "Canada", "hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system", "Geoscience Australia", "Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative", "GGGSC", "rocks and deposits", "U.S. Geological Survey", "sedimentary rocks", "USGS", "metamorphic rocks", "Geological Survey of Canada", "unconsolidated deposits", "Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center", "geologic maps", "GA", "MRP", "Exploring for the Future Program", "USGS:623a26e4d34e915b67cdf5f4", "GSC", "CMMI", "H3 DGGS", "geology", "geoscientificInformation", "Australia"], "modified": "2025-03-31T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-179.1540, -54.7538, 179.7736, 83.1229", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Gridded geology shapefiles for the United States, Canada, and Australia"}