This digital product is a digital version of Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) Map 1373, Geological Map of the Mahone Bay Area, Nova Scotia (Sheet B), compiled by B. H. O'Brien, P. D. Barrette, D. A. Kenney, G. F. Gouthro and S. E. Palmer, 1985. The digital product was digitized from Map 1373 (Sheet B) and the databases were developed from the information contained on this map. The digital product contains layers for geological features such as: anticlines/synclines, bedrock geological units, geological contacts, mineral occurrences, outcrops, structural information, and cross sections.
The DATA is provided to the USER on an "as is" basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
The entire risk as to the quality and accuracy of the DATA is with the USER and the USER shall use his/her own judgment in making use of the DATA or drawing conclusions based upon it.
NR&R shall not be liable to the USER, his/her clients, servants, agents, contractors, assigns, or to any other person for any loss or damage of any kind including personal injury or death arising from the use of the DATA or accompanying written materials, or from errors, deficiencies or faults therein, whether such damage is caused by negligence or otherwise. If errors or omissions are found in the DATA, the USER will notify NR&R.
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ArcInfo Interchange Format (E00), DXF/DBF, ArcView 3.2a shape files (SHP) and TXT files compressed in self-extracting EXE/ZIP files (more information on data formats)
E00 - 0.2 MB (compressed), 1.1 MB (uncompressed)
DXF/DBF - 0.2 MB (compressed), 1.7 MB (uncompressed)
SHP - 1.9 MB (compressed), 3.2 MB (uncompressed)
The data is in six-degree Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, Zone 20, Central Meridian 63° 00' West using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83).
The data files have been compressed using PKZIP into a single, self-extracting EXE file.
The EXE file can also be opened in WinZip to view and extract the compressed files in the data set.
On UNIX platforms, the unzip command will extract the compressed files in the EXE.
All data sets are in six-degree Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 20 projection using the NAD83 datum. A readme file and a copy of the licence agreement are also included with each data set.