RGMAD Archive 1930-1958 Era
A group of published and unpublished geological maps from the 1930-1958 era that are part of the Historic Geological Map Archive under the Regional Geological Map Archive and Datafile Nationally Significant Database and Collection. The geological maps cover all or parts of New Zealand and its islands and may include maps of parts of Antarctica, Southern Ocean and South Pacific.
The unpublished geological maps are commonly preliminary compilations at larger scale with additional detail that were simplified for publication. These geological maps contain interpretation that is generally superseded by more recent geological maps. In many places, these geological maps show or use information about rock outcrops or landforms that are no longer visible, for example, due to erosion, excavation, building and road construction, dam flooding, or forestation.
The original paper or film physical format of the 312 maps (April 2025 count) in the group are stored in a secure archive at GNS Science building in Avalon, Lower Hutt. These are available for viewing on request.
Digital scanned versions of these maps are also available via the GNS Science Dataset Catalogue - a Search query ‘RGMAD Archive 1930-1958 Era’ will return the geological maps associated with this era and each map can be viewed, streamed into GIS software or downloaded from links provided.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21420/93HF-FW69
Cite as:
GNS Science. (2019). RGMAD Archive 1930-1958 Era. GNS Science. https://doi.org/10.21420/93HF-FW69
Simple
- Alternate title
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Unpublished Geological Map Series
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-11-07
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Spatially represents the geology at or near the surface at a regional scale.
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Various Authors
- Status
- Completed
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Point of contact
- Place
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New Zealand
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Geoscience Australia Search Words
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GEOSCIENCES-Geology
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- Classification
- Unclassified
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(C) Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited.
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- Copyright
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This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY 3.0) Licence. For more details visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz
Where the data are used in a figure GNS Science requests attribution in the following manner: (C) GNS Science. Where reference to the data is to be included in a Reference List the following citation is suggested: Geological maps held in the Regional Geological Map and Data File collection. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS Science) and its funders give no warranties of any kind concerning the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or fitness for purpose of the data. GNS Science accepts no responsibility for any actions taken based on, or reliance placed on the data and GNS Science and its funders exclude to the full extent permitted by law liability for any loss, damage or expense, direct or indirect, and however caused, whether through negligence or otherwise, resulting from any person's or organisation's use of, or reliance on, the data.
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- License
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 1930
- End date
- 1958
- Reference system identifier
- WGS84
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Distributor
- Fees
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Electronic download of the data is free. There is a fee for copies of data on physical media.
- Planned available datetime
- 2012-01-02T00:00:00
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Name Version TIF
PNG
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Our-Science/Land-and-Marine-Geoscience/Regional-Geology/Geological-Maps/Legacy-Geological-Maps Legacy Geological Maps
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- Dataset
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series
- Statement
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This series of maps represents a loosely defined group of geological maps, some of which have been published, that have been compiled on various scale base sheets, from 1930 to 1958.
The individual maps were prepared with conventional manual cartography.
The Hard Copy Map has been scanned at 600DPI, down-sampled to 300DPI, and georeferenced. The digital images have been combined into ImageService dataset for dissemination and released as Web Map Service.
Metadata
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- d7cccf74-59d3-43cd-90cc-460e2a625d87 XML
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
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series
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-23T21:14:09.557809Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata standard version
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1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
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