Description: The Iowa Geological and Water Survey (IGWS), as part of the United States Geoscience Information Network (USGIN), has compiled geologic maps from the NCGMP-09 database (http://ncgmp.usgs.gov/) covering the United States of America including Hawaii and Alaska. This service was published by the AZGS as part of the USGIN initiative to “create and facilitate discovery and access to geoscience information provided by state and federal geological surveys of the United States”. This data was compiled by the Arizona Geological Survey. The layer, Geologic Unit View, is a compilation dataset containing geologic units covering the State of Iowa. The features are provided in GeoSciML portrayal schema and are compatible with version 3.0(http://schemas.geosciml.org/geosciml-portrayal/2.0). The dataset table includes geologic name, description, lithology, and geologic history. This service is compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and the data within is compatible with GeoSciML portrayal view for geoscience data.
Copyright Text: Iowa Geological and Water Survey, provided by Illinois State Geological Survey in coordination with Arizona Geological Survey