Digital Surficial Geological Data of the Halifax Metropolitan and Surrounding Areas, NS

Digital Surficial Geological Data of the Halifax Metropolitan and Surrounding Areas, NS This digital product is a compilation of surficial geological data of the Halifax Metropolitan area which was defined by Dan Utting using a LiDAR derived bare-earth hillshade model. The LiDAR data was collected by PHB Lasermap, and provided by Halifax Regional Municipality. The data was used to create Open File Maps OFM ME 2011-001 to 2011-012, compiled by D. J. Utting, 2011. The digital product was created by Geoscience and Mines Branch staff at the Department of Energy and Mines. The digital product contains layers for geological features such as: age dates, drumlins, eskers, geological contacts, surficial geologic units, ice movement, moraines, meltwater, neatline, station locations, and large aggregate quarries. 2024-05-02 Government of Nova Scotia Nature and Environmentgeologic & geophysicalgeoscientificinformationdownloadable datasurficial geology (sg)sg 1:25 000sg detailed scale mapdigital productsdigital geoscience datadigital databasesdigital mapsdrumlinseskersgeomorphologygeophysicsglacial depositsglacial featuresglacial flutingsglacial historylidar imagerymorainessurficial geological mappingsurficial geology/geomorphologytill thicknesstillsnova scotiahalifax countyhalifax11d/12beaver river tillhartlen tilllawrencetown tillquaternaryholocenepleistoceneGovernment information Nova Scotia original metadata (https://data.novascotia.ca)HTML https://data.novascotia.ca/datasets/acj7-37ka External datasetother https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/download/dp447dds.asp External datasetother http://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/download/dp447.asp

This digital product is a compilation of surficial geological data of the Halifax Metropolitan area which was defined by Dan Utting using a LiDAR derived bare-earth hillshade model. The LiDAR data was collected by PHB Lasermap, and provided by Halifax Regional Municipality. The data was used to create Open File Maps OFM ME 2011-001 to 2011-012, compiled by D. J. Utting, 2011. The digital product was created by Geoscience and Mines Branch staff at the Department of Energy and Mines. The digital product contains layers for geological features such as: age dates, drumlins, eskers, geological contacts, surficial geologic units, ice movement, moraines, meltwater, neatline, station locations, and large aggregate quarries.

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