Metadata: Bedrock Geology of the Chaudière River Watershed

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Abstract

This dataset presents the bedrock geology of the Chaudière River Watershed. The study area designates the Chaudière River watershed, located south of the St. Lawrence River, near Québec City. The watershed is underlain by the Appalachian geological province. The Cambrian to lower Devonian age sedimentary and volcanic rocks are deformed and weakly metamorphosed. The relatively complex geology has been simplified into five major tectonostratigraphic units and intrusive rocks: External Humber Zone North, Internal Humber Zone, External Humber Zone South, Dunnage zone, Gaspé Belt and Intrusive rocks.
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TitleBedrock Geology of the Chaudière River Watershed
Date2014-01-01 (register publication)
Date2000-01-01 (register creation)
Edition1
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register principalInvestigator
NameNicolas Benoît
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email nicolas.benoit@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543646
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NameSébastien Castonguay
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email sebastien.castonguay@canada.ca
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register custodian
NameFrancois Letourneau
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email francois.letourneau@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543826
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register pointOfContact
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OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
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AddressDelivery point :
City :
Administrative region :
Postal code :
Country :
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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Related publication

  • Benoit, N; Nastev, M; Blanchette, D; Molson, J; Canadian Water Resources Journal vol. 39, no. 1, 2014; p. 32-48, doi:10.1080/07011784.2014.881589

Goals

This map was created to provide a regional frame of the simplified bedrock geology . This dataset is used to realize other themes.

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Languagefra; CAN
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Thematic categorygeoscientificInformation
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register distributor
NameEric Boisvert
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
Position
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AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email eric.boisvert2@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543705
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register pointOfContact
Name
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
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AddressDelivery point :
City :
Administrative region :
Postal code :
Country :
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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Introduction
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The dataset comes from the synth_geologie_rocDD_nad83_clip1.shp file of the Chaudière River Watershed project archives folder. The geological units name dataset was created by merging the MON_GRP and MON_FRM fields. The English descriptions are from the lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units and the french from the Lexique stratigraphique canadien d'Yvon Globensky (1993) or from the file itself. Bedrock geological units were assigned a lithologic class based on the dominant composition, with the understanding that some units are too complex to be assigned a single lithologic class, in order to render the map in a uniform national map. The original classification of the unit is still available in the dataset, along with a link to the Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units (http://weblex.nrcan.gc.ca/). The GeoSciML / IUGS lithological classification has been used as a standard earth material vocabulary (http://resource.geosciml.org/).
The dataset comes from the synth_geologie_rocDD_nad83_clip1.shp file of the Chaudière River Watershed project archives folder. The geological units name dataset was created by merging the MON_GRP and MON_FRM fields. The English descriptions are from the lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units and the french from the Lexique stratigraphique canadien d'Yvon Globensky (1993) or from the file itself. Bedrock geological units were assigned a lithologic class based on the dominant composition, with the understanding that some units are too complex to be assigned a single lithologic class, in order to render the map in a uniform national map. The original classification of the unit is still available in the dataset, along with a link to the Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units (http://weblex.nrcan.gc.ca/). The GeoSciML / IUGS lithological classification has been used as a standard earth material vocabulary (http://resource.geosciml.org/).

Technical details and constraints

File identifierfe137b6f-3475-4e56-8ade-2cd678f072d8
Languageeng; CAN
Character encodingregister utf8
Hierarchical classificationregister dataset
Date2016-06-10
Metadata standardNorth American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
VersionCAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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Reference System codeEPSG:4326
Registerhttp://www.epsg-registry.org/
Version6.14

Metadata Contact

register author
NameFrancois Letourneau
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Quebec
Position
Information
AddressDelivery point : 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage 490, rue de la Couronne, 3e étage
City : Québec Québec
Administrative region : Québec Québec
Postal code :
Country : Canada Canada
Email francois.letourneau@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6543826
Online Resource
register pointOfContact
Name
OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
Position
Information
AddressDelivery point :
City :
Administrative region :
Postal code :
Country :
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
Telephone
Online Resource