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  1. Title: Linguistic stocks of American Indians north of Mexico

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 51 x 43 cm Includes inset of the Aleutian Islands. Bureau of ethnology. Seventh annual report, plate I.

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  2. Title: ESRI Data & Maps 2006 : U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene), in and near the United States. The data is a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.

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  3. Title: ESRI Data & Maps 2005 : U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States. The data are a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.

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  4. Title: ESRI Data & Maps 2004 : U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States. The data are a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.

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  5. Title: World Volcanoes, 1995

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    Summary: Volcanoes of the World is a point theme representing volcanoes thought to have been active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene). The data include a unique volcano number, volcano name, location, latitude and longitude, summit elevation, volcano type, status, and the time range of the last recorded eruption. More detailed descriptions of the data elements, plus more information on the volcanoes and their eruptions, can be found below and in "Volcanoes of the World" (Simkin and Siebert, 1994). The book provides a discussion of the many cautions that are so easily stripped away from an electronic database, such as the incomplete and uneven nature of the historical record, even in this century, and the large uncertainties surrounding many older eruption dates. The accuracy of the record varies enormously from one region to another (and one century to another), and the sea-floor volcanism that dominates our planetary magma budget is scarcely represented in this data set.

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  6. Title: Global GIS : volcanoes of the world ; volcano basic data

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    Summary: This datalayer is point coverage containing basic geographic and geologic information for worldwide volcanoes thought to have been active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene). The data is a collection of information by Smithsonian Institution volcanologists summarizing 1,509 volcanoes and this version of the data set was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database. The data was adapted from Simkin and Siebert, 1994 'Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions' and produced digitally by the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program. The data include a unique volcano number, volcano name, location, latitude and longitude, summit elevation, volcano type, status, and the time range of the last recorded eruption. More detailed descriptions of the data elements, plus more information on the volcanoes and their eruptions, can be found below and in 'Volcanoes of the World' (Simkin and Siebert, 1994). The book provides a discussion of the many cautions that are so easily stripped away from an electronic database, such as the incomplete and uneven nature of the historical record, even in this century, and the large uncertainties surrounding many older eruption dates. The accuracy of the record varies enormously from one region to another (and one century to another), and the sea-floor volcanism that dominates our planetary magma budget is scarcely represented in this data set. The basic building block of the Smithsonian's volcano database is the 'Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World' (CAVW), a series of regional volcano catalogs published by IAVCEI beginning in 1951. The listings are not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography of references for a particular volcano or region, but represent those references that are cited as the sources of the volcano and eruption data in the CAVW. Several other global compilations have been helpful: among them are IAVCEI data sheets of post-Miocene volcanoes (1975-80), Volcano Letter reports of the U S Geological Survey from 1926-1955 (compiled in Fiske et al., 1987), independent compilations by Latter (1975) and Gushchenko (1979), and a caldera compilation by Newhall and Dzurisin (1988). Major sources of eruption data subsequent to or supplementing the CAVW can be found in a series of annual summaries by Gustav Hantke published between 1939 and 1962 (mostly in the IAVCEI publication Bulletin of Volcanology), and annual eruption compilations by the Volcanological Society of Japan (1960-96) and Smithsonian Institution reports (since 1968) in various formats, compiled in McClelland et al., (1985) and in the Activity Reports section of the Smithsonian Institution, Global Vulcanism website (Venzke et al., 2002-). The data sources referenced focus almost exclusively on Holocene volcanism and emphasize papers on volcanic stratigraphy and physical volcanology. Abstracts are typically not referenced unless they contain significant data not in other sources. As with the Georef bibliographic database, diacritical marks are not used.

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  7. Title: World (Volcanoes, 2003)

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    • 2003
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    Summary: This file contains basic geographic and geologicinformation for volcanoes thought to have been active inthe last 10,000 years (Holocene). The data include a uniquevolcano number, volcano name, location, latitude andlongitude, summit elevation, volcano type, status, and thetime range of the last recorded eruption. Moredetailed descriptions of the data elements, plus moreinformation on the volcanoes and their eruptions, can befound below and in "Volcanoes of the World" (Simkin andSiebert, 1994). The book provides a discussion of the manycautions that are so easily stripped away from anelectronic database, such as the incomplete anduneven nature of the historical record, even in thiscentury, and the large uncertainties surrounding many oldereruption dates. The accuracy of the record variesenormously from one region to another (and one century toanother), and the sea-floor volcanism that dominates ourplanetary magma budget is scarcely representedin this data set.

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  8. Title: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes 2008

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene), in and near the United States. The data is a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.

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  9. Title: United States Volcanoes, 2012

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    Summary: United States Volcanoes is a polygon theme representing volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene), in and near the United States. The data is a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.

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  10. Title: United States Volcanoes, 2008

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    Summary: United States Volcanoes is a polygon theme representing volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years (Holocene), in and near the United States. The data is a subset of data available from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data & Maps collection.

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  11. Title: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes 2002

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States.

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  12. Title: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States.

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  13. Title: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes 2000

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    Summary: U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States.

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  14. Title: Guatemala, From Official and Other Sources, 1902

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1902 paper map entitled: Guatemala, From Official and Other Sources. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  15. Title: Guatemala, From Official and Other Sources, 1902

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1902 paper map entitled: Guatemala. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  16. Title: Map of the Arctic Regions, 1912

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1912 paper map entitled: Map of the Arctic Regions. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  17. Title: Distribution of Ricketsial Disease: Tick and Mite Born Vectors (1954)

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    Summary: 1954

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  18. Title: Road Map, Long Island, NY, 1925 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Official AAA road map of Long Island. It was published by the American Automobile Association in 1925. Scale [ca. 1:125,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the New York Long Island State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 3104) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, ferry lines, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also indexes to aviation fields, cemeteries, golf and country clubs, parks, race tracks, and yacht clubs. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  19. Title: Global GIS : world administrative units, 2002

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    Summary: This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing First-Order Administrative Areas worldwide (as they existed in 2002) and was originally produced by ESRI for the Global GIS database. Attribute data includes information on administrative region names, type, size (population) and country of location. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

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  20. Title: Global GIS : Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) data in ArcView Shape File Format, for Spacial Data Delivery Project, 1999

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    Summary: This datalayer is a point coverage representing metallic and non-metallic mineral resources worldwide. This data was derived from the Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) data in ArcView Shape File Format, for Spatial Data Delivery Project, 1999 (Edition: Version 1.1) and was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database (2003). MRDS contains variable-length records of metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources of the world. A record contains descriptive information about mineral deposits and mineral commodities. The types of information in the data base include deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, potential resources, and references. The Mineral Resource Data System master database is not accessible via the WWW. The large number of multi-valued fields make it difficult to import all the fields into a data format that can be utilized by the ArcView Internet Map Server Software. This dataset contains all MRDS locations, but only 44 of the possible 226 fields. A data structure was created in Access 97. Data was imported into the file structure and then processed into Arc View, where it was transformed into shape files that are used by the IMS software to serve the MRDS data and permit access via the www. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

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