Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society Google Earth Technical Workshop

March 21, 2013

 

Workshop Leaders: John Snow, Mark Coolbaugh, Bill Clark, and Ronald Hess

 

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG)

Great Basin Science Sample and Records Library (GBSSRL) Building

 

Data files and Web links in "GOOGLE_WORKSHOP_HESS" directory compiled by Ronald Hess.

 

=====  Internet Links to Sites That Provide Google Data or Applications  =====

 

USGS Mineral Resources, MRDS, Geochemical, and other Spatial Datasets: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/

Quaternary Fault and Fold Database of the United States: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults/

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS): http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html/

Google Earth Home page: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

Earth Point Tools for Google Earth: http://www.earthpoint.us/

Shape file to KML file format converter – Shp2kml 2.0:  http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html

Ron Hess Home Page with Links to Various Data and Mapping Sites:  http://web.rtci.net/~rhess/index.html

 

=====  Data sets included in this zip compressed file  =====

 

The files in these directories contain various Nevada Geologic and Mineral Resource data sets, either downloaded from the Web or converted from existing digital reports, to Google KML file format by Ronald Hess. The KML files contained in these directories are in Latitude/Longitude, WGS84 projection.

 

For full metadata you should refer to the original or parent document. Many of these files were in shape file format and converted to KML by use of a public shape-to-kml file converter which is also included with these files. Copies of the original metadata for each data set is included with the KML files. Some of the included KML files require an active Internet or Web connection to function properly.

 

This information should be considered preliminary. It has not been edited or checked for completeness or accuracy.

 

======  Directories and List of KML Files  ======

 

This readme file – README_FIRST.htm

 

ACTIVE_MINES:

 

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Active Mines and Energy Producers, 2010 – active_mines.kml

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Active Mines and Energy Producers Mining Districts – mining_districts.kml

Nevada  Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 10-5 Acrobat layered PDF format – Of105_reduced.pdf

Explanatory text – README.txt

 

The above data layers are from: Nevada active mines and energy producers map with mining district names, 2010, by Ronald H. Hess and David A. Davis, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Open-File Report 10-5, 1:1,000,000 scale map and the Nevada Active Mines and Energy Producers, 2010, by Ronald H. Hess and David Davis, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Map 170, 1:1,000,000 scale map and digital files. The original files were projected to latitude/longitude WGS84 and converted from shape file format to KML format.

 

NBMG_OIL_GAS_2007:

 

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Oil and Gas Well Database, 2007 – OilGas_2007.kml.

Metadata text file – OilGas_07_metadata.txt

Conodont Color Alteration Indices (CAI) data set of Nevada – CAI_Max_Map.kml

Metadata text file – cai_max_map_metadata.txt

Locations of oil and gas seeps and shallow shows in Nevada – Seeps_Shows.kml

Metadata text file – seeps_shows_metadata.txt

Map of Geologic units associated with possible petroleum source rocks in Nevada – Source_Rocks.kml

Metadata text file – source_rocks_metadata.txt

 

All of the above data layers are from “Petroleum data map of Nevada”, 2007, by Larry J. Garside and Ronald H. Hess, Map 162, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. The original files were projected and converted from shape file format to KML format.

 

NV_MINE_AND_PROSPECT_SITES:

 

The mine shafts, adits, and prospect pits in Nevada original data set contains over 106,000 sites for Nevada. The original data, in shape file format, was broken up into four quadrants to reduce the file size when converted to KML format. There is some over lap at the edges of the quadrants. The files below contain the same locations as the original file, are much smaller in size, and load into Google much faster.

 

Mine shafts, adits, and prospect pits in Northeast Nevada – NORTHEAST_NV_MINES_AND_PROSPECTS.kml

Mine shafts, adits, and prospect pits in Northwest Nevada – NORTHWEST_NV_MINES_AND_PROSPECTS.kml

Mine shafts, adits, and prospect pits in Southeast Nevada – SOUTHEAST_NV_MINES_AND_PROSPECTS.kml

Mine shafts, adits, and prospect pits in Southeast Nevada – SOUTHEAST_NV_MINES_AND_PROSPECTS.kml

Metadata text file – NV_MINE_AND_PROSPECT_SITE_METADATA.txt

 

The above data layers are from “Nevada abandoned mines database compilation update”, 2001, by Ronald H. Hess, Open-File Report 01-3,  Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. The original files were projected and converted from shape file format to KML format

 

NBMG_URANIUM:

 

NBMG Nevada Uranium and Thorium Occurrences - uranium.kml

NBMG Nevada Uranium and Thorium Occurrences report - uranium.htm

 

The above data is from: "Nevada Uranium and Thorium Occurrences", 2006, by Larry J. Garside, Open-File Report 06-19, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.

 

USGS_GEOCHEM_DATABASE:

 

USGS National geochemical survey database, Nevada sites – geochem_fUS32-1.kml

USGS Geochemistry of stream sediments in Nevada from the NURE-HSSR database – nuresed-fUS32.kmz

 

Source Web site: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/general/

 

USGS_MINE_PLANTS:

 

USGS Active mines and mineral plants database, Nevada locations – USGS_NV_mineplant.kml

 

Source Web site: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/

 

USGS_MRDS_ALL_NEVADA:

 

USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), all Nevada locations – mrds-fUS32-3.kml

 

Source Web site: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/

 

USGS_MRDS_BY_COUNTY:

 

USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), same as above but Nevada locations grouped by county:

 

Carson City (Formerly Ormsby County) – mrds-carson_city.kml

Churchill County – mrds-churchill.kml

Clark County – mrds-clark.kml

Douglas County – mrds-douglas.kml

Elko County – mrds-elko.kml

Esmeralda County – mrds-esmeralda.kml

Eureka County – mrds-eureka.kml

Humboldt County – mrds-humboldt.kml

Lander County – mrds-lander.kml

Lincoln County – mrds-lincoln.kml

Lyon County – mrds-lyon.kml

Mineral County – mrds-mineral.kml

Nye County – mrds-nye.kml

Pershing County – mrds-pershing.kml

Storey County – mrds-storey.kml

Washoe County – mrds-washoe.kml

White Pine County – mrds-white_pine.kml

 

Source Web site for above files: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/

 

USGS_NV_GEOLOGY:

 

USGS 1:500,000 scale geologic map of Nevada – nvgeol.kml

 

Source Web site: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/

 

======  Files Last Updated April 2, 2013 – Ronald Hess  ======