Several major bedrock valleys are found across the state.
The greatest control for the present bedrock surface configuration was probably the preglacial surface configuration. Interpretations of bedrock topography have been modified since the 1950's. Horberg contoured his map with the philosophy that the bedrock surface map represented the preglacial topography modified by glacial erosion, which formed U-shaped valleys. The current map, showing narrow valley channels and bedrock knobs in wide channels, indicates complex preglacial and glacial erosion primarily from running water. The major valleys were formed before the minor valleys that appear as tributaries. Streams that formed during successive glaciations probably eroded to bedrock and produced the small tributary valleys to the main channels. The bedrock surface was less likely to be eroded as sediments accumulated during each successive glaciation.
Please refer to the metadata for the parent coverage, Buried Bedrock Surface of Illinois (GISDB_BEDGEO.IL_Bedrock_Topography_1994_Ln) for more information.
Recent updates to the data:
In March 2004 edition 1.0 of the data set was transitioned to storage in an Oracle RDBMS using the ArcSDE geodatabase model. The result (this version) is designated Edition 20040331.
Illinois State Geological Survey, 1994, Major Bedrock Valleys of Illinois: ISGS GIS Database GISDB_BEDGEO.IL_Bedrock_Valleys, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is Geodetic Reference System 80.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222.
NAME - name of bedrock valley 1 - ancient Mississippi (Lower and Middle Illinois and Princeton) 2 - Mahomet (Teays) 3 - Kaskaskia 4 - Paw Paw and Rook 5 - Troy 6 - Pecatonica 7 - Onarga 8 - Little Wabash 9 - Embarras 10 - Skillet Fork 11 - Saline 12 - Big Muddy 13 - Macoupin 14 - Cache 200 - Carthage, Lower Spoon, Ticona, Danvers, Middletown, Pesotum, Danville 300 - Kempton and Chatsworth 400 - Kirkwood, Athens, Wyoming, plus four unnamed tributary channels (Pecatonica [2], Rook [1], Danville [1]) 999 - state boundary
Annotation features are included to display the bedrock valley name.
Applications are regional or statewide studies, preferably at a scale of 1:500,000. Bedrock valley data can be used in conjunction with the buried bedrock surface information, which will be useful in such fields as groundwater resource planning, engineering geology and earthquake hazard mapping.The data are not appropriate as a geodetic, legal or engineering base. The data set was not and is not intended as a substitute for surveyed locations, such as can be determined by a registered Public Land Surveyor. Although useful in a GIS as a reference base layer for maps, the data set has no legal basis in the definition of boundaries or property lines.
Herzog, B.L.. B.J. Stiff, C.A. Chenoweth, K.L, 1994, Buried Bedrock Surface of Illinois: ISGS GIS Database GISDB_BEDGEO.IL_Bedrock_Topography_1994_Ln, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois.
Herzog, B.L., B.J. Stiff, C.A. Chenoweth, K.L, 1994, Buried Bedrock Surface of Illinois: ISGS Illinois Map Series 5, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois.
Herzog, B.L.. B.J. Stiff, C.A. Chenoweth, K.L, 1994, Original mylar separates for map of Buried Bedrock Surface of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois.
Horberg, L., 1950, Bedrock Topography of Illinois: ISGS Bulletin 73, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois.
The source coverage was bedval.
The annotation feature class was imported into SDE from the source coverage using the method in an article entitled Converting Annotation from Coverage to Geodatabase Format (Colin Childs, ArcUser Magazine, October-December 2001, pp. 22-23) and the companion tutorial (referenced in the article.)
Prior to using the steps in the tutorial, a TAT coverage file had to be generated for the coverage. This was done in ArcInfo Workstation 7.2.1 with the following commands.
Arc: copyfeatures bedval anno bedval anno.anno Arc: build bedval annotation.anno
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Horizontal positional accuracy of this data with respect to the source map was verified by ISGS and USGS personnel by visual comparison (manual overlay) of source mylars and hard-copy plots. Arcs within one line-width of source mylars were deemed acceptable.
This data set depicts the buried bedrock valleys of Illinois. Only major valleys are included. Although this version has updated the major valleys since Horberg (1950), that source also shows smaller-scale tributary valleys which are not included in this dataset.
When in coverage format, this data set was checked for complete chain-node topology (no dangling arcs, except where appropriate), boundary values appropriate for map projection and map units, and appropriate "fuzzy" tolerances.
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