Metadata: Piezometric surface of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin

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Abstract

This dataset presents the piezometric surface elevation in meter above sea level of the bedrock aquifers in the south-central area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin. The study area extends from 65°30' à 63°30'. The data were obtained from database of New Brunswick (219 values), Nova Scotia (225 values) and Prince Edward Island (153 values), and from the fieldwork (351 data). The data taken before 1998 were not used in this study. The isolines were traced with SURFER through kriging using an exponential variogram with a correlation length of 21 km. The resulting map shows that the groundwater generally flows towards the ocean, but that watersheds of large rivers have a significant influence on groundwater flow.
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TitlePiezometric surface of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin
Date2005-01-01 (register publication)
Date2003-01-01 (register creation)
Edition1
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register principalInvestigator
NameYves Michaud
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
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Country : Canada Canada
Email yves.michaud@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6542673
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register originator
NameYves Michaud
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 yves.michaud@canada.ca
Telephonetelephone voice; 1 (418) 6542673
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register custodian
NameFrancois Letourneau
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 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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Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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Related publication

  • C. Rivard, C. Deblonde, Y. Michaud, V. Boisvert, C. Carrier, S. Castonguay, R. Lefebvre, 2005: Hydrogeological Atlas of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4884, 54p., 1 CD-ROM

Goals

This dataset was created to provide the regional piezometry within the region of the Maritimes.

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Spatial representationregister grid
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Languageeng; CAN
Character encodingutf8
Thematic categorygeoscientificInformation
ExtentLocalisation
-65.538286645,45.709773584;-63.484408010,46.548815791
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Distributor

Contact
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
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OrganisationGovernment of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
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Postal code :
Country :
Email nrcan.gsc-geosciencedata-donneesgeoscience-cgc.rncan@canada.ca
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Introduction
General process description
Process step Sources
The raster dataset comes from the file MGWI_clip_piezo.shp. The file was converted to a raster by attributing the values of the GRIDCODE field to pixels. The values of the GRIDCODE field were associated to water level values using the map 5-5 of the Atlas of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin: 1 and 5 : 0 - 5 m; 10 : 5 - 10 m; 20 : 10 - 20 m; 50 : 20 - 50 m; 100 : 50 - 100 m; 150 : 100 - 150 m; 200 : 150 - 200 m; 255: > 200 m.
The raster dataset comes from the file MGWI_clip_piezo.shp. The file was converted to a raster by attributing the values of the GRIDCODE field to pixels. The values of the GRIDCODE field were associated to water level values using the map 5-5 of the Atlas of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin: 1 and 5 : 0 - 5 m; 10 : 5 - 10 m; 20 : 10 - 20 m; 50 : 20 - 50 m; 100 : 50 - 100 m; 150 : 100 - 150 m; 200 : 150 - 200 m; 255: > 200 m.

Technical details and constraints

File identifier64552165-ff61-430a-9f00-b8f95c3f9885
Languageeng; CAN
Character encodingregister utf8
Hierarchical classificationregister dataset
Date2016-06-15
Metadata standardNorth American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
VersionCAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
Constraints
Update frequencyregister asNeeded

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register Frenchregister Canadaregister utf8

Geographic Reference System

Reference System codeEPSG:26920
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