Publication information

Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7108

Predictive Surficial Materials and Geology Derived from LANDSAT 7, Yellowknife, NTS 85J, Northwest Territories

C. W. Stevens, D. E. Kerr, S. A. Wolfe and S. Eagles

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2012

doi:10.495/291731

Publications in this series have not been edited; they are released as submitted by the author.

Recommended citation

Stevens, C.W., Kerr, D.E., Wolfe, S.A., and Eagles, S., 2012. Predictive Surficial Materials and Geology Derived from LANDSAT 7, Yellowknife, NTS 85J, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7108. doi:10.4095/291731

Contents

This product contains geology maps for Yellowknife NTS 85J, located within the Slave Geologic Province. The derived data products accompanying this Open File are presented in graphical and digital form. A printable version of the surficial geology map is provided in pdf format at a scale of 1: 125 000.

This is an 'Autoplay' product for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. To launch navigate to the root directory and double-click on ‘Autorun.exe.’

Directory structure

Directory structure:

\data		- Data files designed for GIS analysis and querying

   \gdb		- Directory for ArcGIS File Geodatabase format (OF7108.gdb)

   \images	- Directory for image formats    
 (NTS_85J_Predictive_Surficial_Material.tif)

   \mxd		- Directory for the ArcGIS ArcMap Documents (OF7108.mxd)

   \shp		- Directory for shapefile format 				
       	 (OF7108_predictive_surficial_geology.shp)

   \xml		- Directory for geodatabase exported into XML workspace document

\doc	- Directory for documentation in Hypertext RTF format. Contains the English version of the readme file (readme.rtf) and a file containing an end-user agreement in English for digital data (license_agreement.rtf)

\meta		- Directory for metadata documentation (meta7108.txt)

\pdfs		- Directory for PDF format (OF_7108.pdf, Appendix A.pdf)

System requirements

PC with 486 or greater processor, or Mac® with OS® X v. 10.2.2 or later; Adobe® 
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Projection Description
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Projection: Transverse Mercator
False Easting: 500000.000000
False Northing: 0.000000
Central Meridian: -117.000000
Scale Factor: 0.999600
Latitude of Origin: 0.000000
Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000)

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS North American 1983
Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453292519943299)
Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000)
Datum: North American Datum 1983
  Spheroid: GRS_1980
    Semimajor Axis: 6378137.000000
    Semiminor Axis: 6356752.3141403561000000
    Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101000020000

Author contact information

Dr. Christopher W. Stevens (christopher.stevens@NRCan.gc.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario 
K1A 0E9

Availability information

This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/).