Geological Map of the Cheticamp Area
DP ME 353, Version 1, 2006. Digital Version of the Geological
Survey of Canada Map 48-11B, Cheticamp, Inverness County,
Nova Scotia, parts of NTS 11K/10 and 11K/11, scale 1:31 680, by H. L. Cameron,
1948. Digital version compiled by B. E.
Fisher.
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Abstract
This data set is a digital version of Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) Map 4811B,Cheticamp, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, compiled by H.L. Cameron, 1948. The digital product was created by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (NSDNR), Mineral Resources Branch (MRB) staff. The digital product was digitized from GSC Map 4811B and the databases were developed from the information contained on this map. The product contains layers for geological features such as: faults, fossils, bedrock geologic units, geological contacts, gravel pit areas, mineral occurrences, outcrop areas, small outcrops, sinkholes, and structural information.
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ArcInfo Interchange Format
(E00), DXF/DBF, ArcView 3.2a shape files (SHP) and TXT
files compressed in self-extracting EXE/ZIP files (more
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E00 - 0.2 MB (compressed), 0.8
MB (uncompressed)
DXF/DBF - 0.2 MB (compressed), 1.1 MB (uncompressed)
SHP - 0.3 MB (compressed), 1.3 MB (uncompressed) |
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The data is in six-degree Universal
Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, Zone 20, Central Meridian 63°
00' West using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). |
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