README file for
NCGS_Repository_Data_20071116
November 16, 2007
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The companion files in this archive consist of:

1)Field_Key.txt - an explanatory file for column (field) headings in the database:
NCGS_Repository_Data_083007

2) NCGS_Repository_Data_083007 - a csv (comma delimited) file of the North Carolina Geological Survey's Repository holdings of well information.

3) ncgs_repository_metadata.txt - metadata for the file NCGS_Repository_Data_083007


The database contains basic header type information related to archived wells drilled in North Carolina. These wells represent domestic, industrial, and municipal water wells; stratigraphic tests; oil and gas exploratory wells; and mineral exploration wells.  Most wells have samples and geophysical logs.  The last two fields in this database are latitude / longitude coordinates in deci-degrees for ease in plotting in a GIS.

These data are also offered as an ESRI shapefile; see: http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/pubs/NCGS_OFR.htm  Open-File Report 88-2

Please see the Field_Key.txt file for additional information.

John Nickerson
john.nickerson@ncdenr.gov
Geologist
NC Geological Survey
919-733-2423 ext. 407

