Geologic Maps of West Virginia

Interactive Geologic Map   → New!

Link: Interactive Geologic Map

Direct Link: https://atlas2.wvgs.wvnet.edu/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ab47a1fc20e4417aa47af96b4c83be28/

• Based on the State Geologic Map-1, 1:250,000 scale (see below)
• Completely re-worked, re-designed spatial database to more correctly represent the original paper map
• Database spatial files now in the USGS-Geological Map Schema (GeMS) and available to download
• Main features: Rock Units in Geologic Ages, Igneous Intrusions, Faults, Anticlines and Synclines, Contact and Boundary Lines
• Interact with Other Map Layers (turn on/off, adjust transparency):
  • Generalized Geology
  • STATEMAP and other Geologic Mapping Projects
  • WV Earthquake and Seismicity
  • Landslide Hazard Susceptibility (via WV GIS Tech Center)
  • Reference Quadrangles
  • WV DOT Base Map
  • Political and Administrative Boundaries (state, counties)
  • 3D Hillside Elevation Overlay
  • World Reference Overlay
• Many Tools!
  • Layer List (turn on/off features, adjust transparency, disable popups, etc.)
  • Legend
  • Basemaps (Generous selection of background maps)
  • Bookmarks to Zoom to a County
  • Drawing Tools to draw on the map
  • Measuring Tools to locate a point, get a distance, measure an area
  • Printing Tools to download a PDF of your map
  • Share the map through social media
  • Slideer Tool (add a layer like "Generalized Geology" in the Layer Tool and then used the slider to go back and forth between the two!)
  • Coordinate Convertor (example: choose the point pin symbol via this tool, click on a location on the map and get various coordinate values)
  • Information Tool (Information about the map)
  • Help Tool (Information on how to use the tools)
  • Attribute Table (available via the little black tab with arrow in the bottom-middle of the map; lists information of features on the map
• Free Download of the spatial files for the Geologic Map (1968, Map-1 - Rock Units, Map Unit Lines [Igneous Intrusions], Contacts and Faults, Geologic Lines (Anticlines and Synclines) via this FORM for "Statewide 1968 Revised GeMS (1:250,000)"