Publication information ___________________ Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6472 Massive ground ice occurrences, and permafrost geology-related observations from seismic shothole drillers' log records, Northwest Territories and northern Yukon. Smith, I.R. and Lesk-Winfield, K. © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2010 Open files are products that have not gone through the GSC formal publication process. Recommended citation ____________________ Smith, I.R. and Lesk-Winfield, K. 2010. Massive ground ice occurrences, and permafrost geology-related observations from seismic shothole drillers' log records, Northwest Territories and northern Yukon; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6472, 1 DVD-ROM. System Requirements ___________________ PC with 486 or greater processor, or Mac® with OS® X v. 10.2.2 or later; Adobe® Reader® v.7 or later; ESRI® ArcReader™ v. 10 for Windows (included); video resolution of 1280 x 1024. Adobe, Acrobat, and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. ESRI®, ArcReader™, and ArcExplorer™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI® in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Contents ________ This Open file publication utilizes seismic shothole drillers’ litholog records to document ground ice and massive ice thickness and extents in the Northwest Territories and northern Yukon. It also provides estimates of permafrost thickness in areas of thin extensive and sporadic discontinuous permafrost, identification of unfrozen sediments (existing and relic taliks) at depth in areas of thick permafrost cover, and depths of surface thaw in offshore Mackenzie Delta sediments. Directory structure: \ - Contains the English version of this readme file(readme.txt); a file containing an end-user agreement in English for digital data (licence_agreement_e.txt); a Published Map File (PMF); and an ArcMap GIS Project File (MXD). \apps - Contains ESRI® ArcReader™ v. 10 for Windows software (see below for information on installation). \documentation - Contains license agreement for ESRI® ArcReader™ v. 10 in pdf file format \data - Data files designed for GIS analysis and querying. \gis - Contains data file designed for GIS analysis and querying. \shp - Directory for shapefile format. \doc - Contains documents in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format. \html - Directory for HTML format. \IMAGES - Contains images for HTML files. \meta - Contains metadata in 'FGDC classic' format. Applications Directory (\apps) ______________________________ Contains installation file for ArcReader™. The installation file for ArcReader™ v 10 for Windows® was downloaded from http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/download.html. Please visit this web site for system requirements, documentation and user guides. Installation of ArcReader™ under Windows® requires administrator privileges. During installation, files are put in the TEMP directory. A TEMP environment variable must be set and the TEMP directory should be writable. To install ArcReader™, run or double-click on the file setup.exe and follow the instructions of the installation wizard. To get started quickly in viewing the digital data using ArcReader™, copy the contents of the entire DVD to your root C drive (C:\); then double-click on the file OF6472.pmf. Data Directory (\data) ______________________ Contains data in shapefile format for the GIS data files. The GIS map feature class names and attributes are explained in the \doc\html\descript.htm file on this DVD. Quick Start ___________ This is an Autoplay DVD-ROM which opens an introductory Windows® form. If the DVD-ROM fails to start, use any HTML browser to open the file 'introduction.htm' in the \DOC\html folder. Author contact information __________________________ Dr. I. Rod Smith (rodsmith@NRCan.gc.ca) Geological Survey of Canada 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 Purchasing locations ______________________ Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (Ottawa) 615 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E9 Tel.: 613-995-4342 Tel.: 888-252-4301 (toll-free) Fax: 613-943-0646 E-mail: gscbookstore@nrcan.gc.ca Web: http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/bookstore/index_e.php Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (Vancouver) 625 Robson Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5J3 Tel.: 604-666-0271 Fax: 604-666-1337 E-mail: gscvan@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca Web: http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/org/vancouver/bookstore/index_e.php Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (Atlantic) 1 Challenger Drive P.O. Box 1006 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2 Tel.: 902-426-4386 Fax: 902-426-4848 E-mail: Jennifer.Bates@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca Web: http://gsca.nrcan.gc.ca/pubprod/pubprod_e.php Geological Survey of Canada Bookstore (Québec) 490, rue de la Couronne Québec, Quebec G1K 9A9 Tel.: 418-654-2677 Fax: 418-654-2660 E-mail: cgcq_librairie@rncan.gc.ca Web: http://www.cgcq.rncan.gc.ca/bibliotheque/