Global Geology

Global Geology Data Sets

GIS data layers for marine geology and plate tectonics.

Geology Grids

Geology vector data

Additional data

Heat flow
Global seafloor fabric;
- including fracture zones, extinct ridges, V-anomalies, discordant zones, and propagating rifts.
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JB008413/full
Magnetic anomalies
Marine magnetic anomaly data
National Geochronological Database
World Stress Map:
- Reinecker, J., Heidbach, O., Tingay, M., Sperner, B., & Müller, B. (2005): The 2005 release of the World Stress Map (available online at www.world-stress-map.org ).

Earthquake catalogs

Main USGS global earthquake data (directions): http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

University of Reno:http://www.seismo.unr.edu/Catalog/nbe-search.html

Northern California: http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/ncedc/catalog-search.html

T-Phase earthquakes, PMEL (data 1996-2002 on EPR, and 1999-2003 on MAR)

http://www.ninepointfive.org/ 3D web visualization of earthquakes

Earthquake focal mechanisms

Global CMT
Italy CMT dataset: http://www.bo.ingv.it/RCMT/Italydataset.html
Japan (monthly, with focal mechanisms): http://www.hinet.bosai.go.jp/AQUA/aqua_catalogue.php?LANG=en
http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscbulletin/search/fmechanisms/
- http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscbulletin/search/fmechanisms/csvoutput/
http://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/eqcmt.html : focal mechanism and wave forms, by earthquake. Would need some work to get the data into the format used by MICRODEM.

Landslides and other Natural Disasters

EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – Université catholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium. http://www.emdat.be/database
NatCatSERVICE is the most comprehensive natural catastrophe loss database in the world. Approximately 1,000 events are recorded and analyzed every year. http://www.munichre.com/en/reinsurance/business/non-life/georisks/natcatservice/default.aspx
GLC, Global Landslide Catalog: https://data.nasa.gov/Earth-Science/Global-Landslide-Catalog/h9d8-neg4/data
Tsunamis, locations and runups http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_db.shtml
Human induced earthquakes: http://inducedearthquakes.org/

California state waters: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/mapping/csmp/gis.html

US Geology Data Sets

Geologic maps
- National Geologic Map Database http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngm_catalog.ora.html
- State Geologic Maps--http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/ or http://tin.er.usgs.gov/geology/state/ as shapefiles and KMZ
Coastal erosion
- California Cliff Erosion http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1112/
- US shoreline erosion, NE: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1119/data_catalog.html
GLORIA mosaics
- http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/gloria/gloria.html
- http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/gloria/
- http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/regional/contusa/gomex/gloria/GLORIA_images.html
- http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/regional/contusa/westcoast/pacificcoast/GLORIA_images.html
- http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/gloria/eastcst/index.html
- http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/gloria/pubsrefs.html
Geologic Map of North America (2005): http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/gmna/ 119 m zipped shapefile.
Geology of the conterminous US (King and Beikman, 1974): http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/kb.html
North America magnetic anomalies: from http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/ofr-02-414/index.html, USGS Open-File Report 02-414. Data read with Oasis montaj Viewer 6.3, saved as FLT file, and opened in MICRODEM.
Great Basin Geology and Geothermal: http://www.unr.edu/Geothermal/datalist.html
UNC Sierra Nevada USGS Maps: http://geomaps.geosci.unc.edu/quads/quads.htm
North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database (NAVDAT) http://www.navdat.org/
State Geological Surveys--http://www.stategeologists.org/
Fracking

International Geology

Active Andes (shapefile, KML, GMT, 150 MB each): https://documents.ku.edu/ORGS/Academics/College%20of%20Liberal%20Arts%20and%20Sciences/Geology/ActiveAndesMap/ATA-1.0/

Plate Tectonics

ODSN (Ocean drilling stratigraphic network) http://www.odsn.de/

Geology Data sets:

Geologic maps

US, Arc View http://minerals.usgs.gov/kb/kb.html

USGS on-line pubs: http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/

Plate boundaries:

Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.

IODP drilling locations (KML): https://www.iodp.org/resources/maps-and-kml-tools

Programs and data for plates motions:

Last revision 8/28/2018