Geologic Resources Inventory Project for Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
Tim Connors (GRD), Jason Kenworthy (NPS GRD), Stephanie O'Meara, Colorado State University. Geologic Resources Inventory Project for Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. 2012
The Geologic Resources Inventory aims to raise awareness of geology and the role it plays in the environment, and to provide natural resource managers and staff, park planners, interpreters, and researchers with information that can help them make informed management decisions. A part of the program's mission is to provide more than 270 parks with digital geologic-GIS data and a geology report. This Geologic Resources Inventory Project is part of the NPS Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) Program. The program strives to advance science based management of natural resources in the national parks, and to raise awareness about geology and the role that geologic features and processes play in the environment. The Geologic Resources Division of the NPS Natural Resource Program Center administers the program. A completed GRI project consists of digital geologic-GIS map(s), and a geologic report, and is intended to assist NPS personnel in the protection and management of the park. GRI geologic-GIS maps are available in ESRI GIS formats, and include FGDC metadata, GIS readme file, and an ancillary map information document that contain descriptions of units present on the map, as well as graphics, figures, tables, references and report text when present on the source maps used by the GRI in producing the map. Some digital geologic-GIS maps pertaining to this project are also available in KML/KMZ format for use in Google Earth. The GRI geologic report identifies and provides a description of key geologic resource management issues, a discussion of geologic features and processes important to park ecosystems and management, a map unit properties table that identifies characteristics of geologic map units, a brief geologic history of the park area; and an overview of the digital geologic map data. Refer to Products (below) for the availability of GRI digital geologic-GIS map(s), and the GRI geologic report pertaining to NPS Units related to this project. Contact Bruce Heise (NPS GRD; bruce_heise@nps.gov) concerning the GRI program, Tim Connors (NPS GRD; tim_connors@nps.gov), concerning the status and availability of GRI geologic-GIS maps, Jason Kenworthy(NPS GRD; jason_kenworthy@nps.gov) concerning the status and availability of GRI reports, and Stephanie O’Meara (Colorado State University; stephanie.omeara@colostate.edu) concerning the use of GRI geologic-GIS maps.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Tim Connors (GRD); Jason Kenworthy (NPS GRD); Stephanie O'Meara, Colorado State University
- Units
- CHAT , GRD , GRI
- Keywords
- CHAT, geologic features, Geologic Features and Processes, Geologic History, Geologic Issues, Geologic Map, geologic report, Geologic Resources Division, Geologic Resources Inventory, Geologic Units, geologic-GIS data, Geology, geospatial dataset, GIS, GIS Data, GRD, GRI, Inventory, Map, Map Unit Properties Table, map units, National Park Service, NPS, Report
Program
Products
- Geologic Resources Inventory Poster for Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (Sandy Springs quadrangle)
- Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area: Geologic resources inventory report
- Digital Bedrock Geologic-GIS Map of the Northern portion of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and Vicinity, Georgia (NPS, GRD, GRI, CHAT, CHTN_bedrock digital map) adapted from a U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report map by Dicken, Nicholson, Horton, Foose and Mueller (2005)
- Digital Bedrock Geologic-GIS Map of the Southern portion of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and Vicinity, Georgia (NPS, GRD, GRI, CHAT, CHTS_bedrock digital map) adapted from a U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map by Higgins, Crawford, Atkins and Crawford (2003)
- Digital Shoals and Underwater Hazard Areas-GIS Map of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia (NPS, GRD, GRI, CHAT, CHSH digital map) adapted from a GeoCorps of America unpublished map map by Hundley (2014)
- Digital Bedrock Geologic-GIS Map of the Sandy Spring Quadrangle Area, Georgia (NPS, GRD, GRI, CHAT, SASP_bedrock digital map) adapted from a GeoCorps of America and University of West Georgia unpublished map map by Harden, Kath and Crawford (2013)
- Geologic Resources Inventory Scoping Summary Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia