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South Carolina strike and dip data

3,039 structural measurements in South Carolina, digitized from 51 published geologic maps across 3 sources. Every row carries its azimuth, inclination, measurement type, location confidence and the citation of the map it came from.

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What kinds of measurement

The Atlas separates planar structures, recorded as a strike and dip, from linear ones, recorded as a trend and plunge. This is what South Carolina holds:

Measurement typeGeometryMeasurementsShare
Foliation Planar — strike and dip 2,29075%
Other Planar — strike and dip 46515%
Cleavage Planar — strike and dip 1344%
Lineation (mineral, stretching) Linear — trend and plunge 532%
Fault plane Planar — strike and dip 462%
Vein / dike Planar — strike and dip 462%
Bedding Planar — strike and dip 5<1%

Where the data comes from

Each source is a survey, agency or program whose published mapping was harvested and reconciled into one schema. Rows are published only where the source's terms permit redistribution.

SourceMeasurementsShare
NPS GRI parks 2,50382%
NGMDB legacy quads 49016%
USGS data releases · MRDS 462%

Most-measured published maps

The individual quadrangles and data releases contributing the most measurements in South Carolina. The full citation for every map behind a selection ships in the sources.csv of any export.

Published mapYearScaleMeasurements
adapted from: Howard, Scott, 2005, Digital Geologic Map of the Kings Creek Quadrangle, Cherokee and York Counties, South Carolina: South Carolina Geologic Survey Digital Geologic Dataset DGD-14, 1:24,000 scale2015 24000928
adapted from: Howard, Scott, 2007, Digital Geologic Map of the Filbert Quadrangle, York County, South Carolina: South Carolina Geologic Survey Digital Geologic Dataset DGD-13, 1:24,000 scale2015 24000778
adapted from: Boland, Irene B., and Howard, Scott C., 2000, Geologic Map of the Cowpens Quadrangle, Cherokee and Spartanburg Counties, South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey, Open File Report OFR-127, scale 1:24,0002024 24000600
Geologic map of the Kings Mountain and Grover quadrangles, Cleveland and Gaston Counties, North Carolina, and Cherokee and York Counties, South Carolina2006 1:24,000490
adapted from: Boland, Irene B., 2010, Geologic Map of the Chesnee Quadrangle, Cherokee and Spartanburg Counties, South Carolina and Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey, Open File Report OFR-159, scale 1:24,0002024 24000191
adapted from: Horton, J., Wright, Jr., 2006, Geologic Map of the Kings Mountain and Grover Quadrangles, Cleveland and Gaston Counties, North Carolina, and Cherokee and York Counties, South Carolina: USGS Scientific Investitigations Map SIM-2981, 1:24,000 scale2015 240006
Ross Tin Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10250774— —2
Barite Hill — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10226420— —1
Beaver Dam Creek Brook Corundum Prospect — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10096520— —1
Brewer Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10069808— —1
Brown Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10106158— —1
Burgess Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10080752— —1
Cameron Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10078262— —1
Cameron Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10079087— —1
Campbell Mine — https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10073200— —1

Most-measured map units

Where a source recorded the geologic unit a measurement was taken on, the Atlas keeps it. These are the units carrying the most measurements in South Carolina.

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