global-geology

A short recipe to make a global geology map in GIS format (e.g. shapefile), with age ranges mapped to the GTS2020 timescale

Data sources

Geology shapefile:

Chorlton, L B. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529, 2007, 48 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/223767 [Open Access]

https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=223767

GTS2020 listing

(mapping geological names to ages in Myr) downloaded from here:

https://geoopenkg.deep-time.org/download