File written by GeMS_ValidateDatabase.py, version of 02/19/2025
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Database path: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1-database\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1.gdb
Output directory: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\ValidationScratch
Metadata file: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1\MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1.gdb-vFgdcMetadata.xml
Check embedded metadata: False
Skip topology check: False
Refresh GeoMaterialDict: True
Delete extra rows in Glossary and DataSources: False
Compact GDB: False

This database is LEVEL 3 COMPLIANT.

The database-level FGDC metadata are formally correct although the metadata record should be reviewed to verify that it is meaningful.

This file should be accompanied by MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1.gdb-ValidationErrors.html and MS_2025_MageeNorth_1-1.gdb-vFgdcMetadata.xml_errors.txt in the same directory.

If this database will be submitted to the NGMDB, it also needs to be accompanied by a reviewed Geologic Names report that includes identification of any suggested modifications to Geolex. Use the Geologic Names Check tool to generate that report or provide other documentation of a review.

Compliance Criteria
Warnings
Content not specified in GeMS schema
Occurrence of MapUnits in DMU, feature datasets, or geopackage tables
Contents of Nonspatial Tables
DataSources
DescriptionOfMapUnits
Glossary
MiscellaneousMapInformation
Database Inventory

LEVEL 1

Criteria for a LEVEL 1 GeMS database are:

• No overlaps or internal gaps in map-unit polygon layer
• Contacts and faults in single feature class
• Map-unit polygon boundaries are covered by contacts and faults lines

Databases with a variety of schema may meet these criteria. This script cannot confirm LEVEL 1 compliance.

LEVEL 2--MINIMALLY COMPLIANT

A LEVEL 2 GeMS database is accompanied by a peer-reviewed Geologic Names report, including identification of suggested modifications to Geolex, and meets the following criteria:

2.1 Has required elements: nonspatial tables DataSources, DescriptionOfMapUnits, GeoMaterialDict; feature dataset GeologicMap with feature classes ContactsAndFaults and MapUnitPolys	PASS
2.2 Required fields within required elements are present and correctly defined	PASS
2.3 All MapUnitPolys and ContactsAndFaults based feature classes obey Level 2 topology rules: no internal gaps or overlaps in MapUnitPolys, boundaries of MapUnitPolys are covered by ContactsAndFaults	PASS
2.4 All map units in MapUnitPolys have entries in DescriptionOfMapUnits table	PASS
2.5 No duplicate MapUnit values in DescriptionOfMapUnit table	PASS
2.6 Certain field values within required elements have entries in Glossary table	PASS
2.7 No duplicate Term values in Glossary table	PASS
2.8 All xxxSourceID values in required elements have entries in DataSources table	PASS
2.9 No duplicate DataSources_ID values in DataSources table	PASS

LEVEL 3--FULLY COMPLIANT

A LEVEL 3 GeMS database meets these additional criteria:

3.1 Table and field definitions beyond Level 2 conform to GeMS schema	PASS
3.2 All MapUnitPolys and ContactsAndFaults based feature classes obey Level 3 topology rules: No ContactsAndFaults overlaps, self-overlaps, or self-intersections.	PASS
3.3 No missing required values	PASS
3.4 No missing terms in Glossary	PASS
3.5 No unnecessary terms in Glossary	PASS
3.6 No missing sources in DataSources	PASS
3.7 No unnecessary sources in DataSources	PASS
3.8 No map units without entries in DescriptionOfMapUnits	PASS
3.9 No unnecessary map units in DescriptionOfMapUnits	PASS
3.10 HierarchyKey values in DescriptionOfMapUnits are unique and well formed	PASS
3.11 All values of GeoMaterial are defined in GeoMaterialDict. GeoMaterialDict is as specified in the GeMS standard	PASS
3.12 No duplicate _ID values	PASS
3.13 No zero-length, whitespace-only, or bad null values	PASS

There are 0 warnings

Some of the extensions to the GeMS schema identified here may be necessary to capture geologic content and are entirely appropriate. Please document these extensions in metadata for the database, any accompanying README file, and (if applicable) any transmittal letter that accompanies the dataset. Other extensions may be intermediate datasets, fields, or files that should be deleted before distribution of the database.

Fields

Tables

CorrelationOfMapUnits
CrossSectionA
GenericPoints

DataSources

OBJECTID	Source	Notes	URL	DataSources_ID
3	Borehole Locations from Mississippi Office of Geology - Environmental Geology Division	Borehole Locations	https://geology.deq.ms.gov/environmental/boreholes/	DAS1
4	Modified from United States Geological Survey, 2020, GeMS (Geologic Map Schema)-A Standard Format for the Digital Publication of Geologic Maps. USGS techniques and Methods 11-B10. Reston, Virginia.	GeMS Schema	https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Info/standards/GeMS/	DAS2
5	Modified from Illinois State Geological Survey, 2022, Geology Resources: Glossary. Webpage accessed 2022.	Definitions of Conformable and Unconformable	https://isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geology-resources/unconformable	DAS3
1	Federal Geographic Data Committee [prepared for the Federal Geographic Data Committee by the U.S. Geological Survey], 2006, FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization: Reston, Va., Federal Geographic Data Committee Document Number FGDC-STD-013-2006, 290 p., 2 plates.	None	https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd.php	FGDC-STD-013-2006
2	Modified from Leard, J.R.; Starnes, J.E.; Palmer, T.J.; Usachenko, N.S. 2026, Geologic Map of the Magee North Quadrangle Simpson and Smith Counties, Mississippi. Mississippi Office of Geology Open-File Report 359. Jackson, Mississippi. Scale 1:24000, 1 sheet.	Data migrated to GeMS format by Jonathan R. Leard	https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/geology/work-areas/publications-and-map-sales/categories/open-file-reports/of-359-geologic-map-of-the-magee-north-quadrangle-simpson-and-smith-counties-mississippi-105370/	OF0359

DescriptionOfMapUnits

OBJECTID	MapUnit	Name	FullName	Age	Description	HierarchyKey	ParagraphStyle	Label	Symbol	AreaFillRGB	AreaFillPatternDescription	DescriptionSourceID	GeoMaterial	GeoMaterialConfidence	DescriptionOfMapUnits_ID
1	None	Quaternary	None	None	None	1	DMU-Heading1	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU01
2	None	Holocene	None	None	None	1-1	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU02
3	Qal	Alluvium	Alluvium	Holocene	Sand, yellow- to brownish-white in color, fine- to coarse-grained, subrounded to rounded, predominately quartzose, silty, clayey; humus lenses common. Streams on clay subcrop will exhibit shallow, wide alluvial plains while streams on sand subcrop tend to incise creating steep valleys with narrow alluvial plains, silicified wood common. Thickness approximately 15 feet along larger streams, thinning up tributaries.	1-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Qal	Qal	255,255,179	None	OF0359	Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained	Medium	DMU03
4	None	Tertiary	None	None	None	2	DMU-Heading1	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU04
5	None	Pliocene	None	None	None	2-1	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU05
6	Tmt	Magee Terrace	Magee Terrace	Pliocene	Generally fining-upward sequence of fluvial siliciclastic deposits attributed to courses of the Plio–Pleistocene ancestral Tennessee–Ohio River system. Sand is yellow, orange, purple, red, and pink; fine to coarse grained; predominantly quartzose; cross bedded to massive. Graveliferous, containing pea to cobble size clasts typically not exceeding 3 in. in length; clasts composed chiefly of chert with lesser amounts of quartz. Chert gravel is deeply weathered and typically incompetent above the water table and can be leached to tripolitic clay. Clay is kaolinitic, pink to white and occurs as discontinuous lenses and as basal rip up clasts. Floodplain silts and clays are preserved above approximately 550 ft MSL. The base of the unit is unconformable at roughly 400 ft MSL. Conglomeritic ironstone is commonly developed at the contact with the underlying Catahoula Formation.	2-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Tmt	Tmt	255,255,0	None	OF0359	Sand and gravel of unspecified origin	Medium	DMU06
7	None	Miocene	None	None	None	2-2	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU07
8	None	Grand Gulf Group	None	None	None	2-2-1	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU08
10	Tca	Catahoula Formation	Catahoula Formation	Miocene	Deltaic to marine gravels, sands, silts, clays, sandstone, ironstone, and limestone. Sand is gray, pale yellow to white; fine to coarse grained; cross bedded to massive. Contains rare thinly bedded pea gravel layers. Gravels consist of highly polished black chert and milky quartz, ranging from subangular to well rounded. Sand is commonly indurated near the surface to sandstone. Predominantly quartzose with lesser amounts of chert, metaquartzite, mica, and heavy minerals; slightly glauconitic in places. Silicified wood and fossil palm fragments are common. Clay is green, gray, and brown; weathers white to brown in color; silty to sandy. Lignite is common in basal clay intervals. Unit is fossiliferous in part. Limestone (Tatum Limestone Member) is characterized by the benthic foraminifera Heterostegina texana. Occurs in the subsurface within the Catahoula Formation. The Catahoula Formation unconformably overlies and locally incises into the underlying Bucatunna Formation. Estimated thickness is approximately 540 ft.	2-2-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Tca	Tca	252,89,102	None	OF0359	Sandstone and mudstone	Medium	DMU09
11	None	Oligocene	None	None	None	2-3	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU10
12	None	Vicksburg Group	None	None	None	2-3-1	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU11
13	Tbu	Bucatunna Formation	Bucatunna Formation	Oligocene	Only divided out in cross section.	2-3-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Tbu	Tbu	178,178,178	None	OF0359	Mudstone	High	DMU12
14	Tv	Vicksburg Formation	Vicksburg Formation	Oligocene	Includes the undifferentiated associated marine units, listed in descending stratigraphic order: Bucatunna Formation, Byram Formation, Glendon Formation, Marianna Formation; and Mint Springs Formation. The Bucatunna Formation consists of carbonaceous clays dark brown to gray in color, silty to fine sandy, averaging about 45 ft in thickness but reaching up to 60 ft within the mapping area. The Byram Formation is composed of sandy to clayey marl, glauconitic and fossiliferous, with a thickness of up to approximately 12 ft. The Glendon Formation consists of semi crystalline limestone interbedded with softer clayey marls and represents the marine highstand of the early Oligocene Vicksburg sequence. The underlying Marianna consists of soft clay marls. Collectively the Glendon-Marianna section reaches a maximum thickness of about 30 ft in the mapping area; The Mint Springs Formation consists of gray to green colored glauconitic and fossiliferous quartz sand. The Vicksburg Group is biostratigraphically characterized by the presence of Pecten byramensis and the larger benthic foraminifera Lepidocyclina sp. The Vicksburg Group unconformably overlies the Forest Hill Formation.	2-3-1-2	DMU Unit 1	Tv	Tv	168,0,0	None	OF0359	Mostly carbonate rock	High	DMU13
15	Tfh	Forest Hill Formation	Forest Hill Formation	Oligocene	Deltaic sands, silts, and clays. Sand is fine-grained, silty, and quartzose; clay is carbonaceous and laminated, with lignite and silicified wood common. Carbonized plant fossils occur along fissile partings in clay intervals. The Forest Hill Formation unconformably overlies and commonly incises into the Yazoo Formation and represents the lowermost unit of the Vicksburg Group, distinguished from overlying units by its terrestrial to deltaic depositional setting. Approximate thickness is 80 ft in the mapping area.	2-3-1-3	DMU Unit 1	Tfh	Tfh	191,99,0	None	OF0359	Sandstone and mudstone	Medium	DMU14
16	None	Eocene	None	None	None	2-4	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU15
17	None	Jackson Group	None	None	None	2-4-1	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU16
18	Ty	Yazoo Formation	Yazoo Formation	Eocene	Outer neritic to bathyal marine clay. Clay is calcareous and montmorillonitic, blue green when in color unweathered, sparingly fossiliferous marine mollusk shell hash common along partings and bentonite seams present. Limestone ledges occur in places. The Yazoo Clay reaches a thickness of approximately 515 ft. The Yazoo Formation is marked by the planktonic foraminifera Hantkenina alabamensis. The Yazoo Formation conformably overlies the Moodys Branch Formation.	2-4-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Ty	Ty	255,204,0	None	OF0359	Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU17
19	Tmb	Moodys Branch Formation	Moodys Branch Formation	Eocene	The Moodys Branch Formation represents the basal member of a marine transgression towards the close of the Eocene epoch, situated unconformably above the deltaic to estuarine Cockfield Formation and conformably below the outer neritic to bathyal clays of the Yazoo Formation. It consists of sandy, fossiliferous marl containing abundant marine mollusk shells of the genera Glycymeris and Venericardia. The unit unconformably overlies the Cockfield Formation, reflecting the delta destructional phase and subsequent marine transgression, and it conformably grades upward into the Yazoo Formation. Total thickness is approximately 15 ft.	2-4-1-2	DMU Unit 1	Tmb	Tmb	171,107,79	None	OF0359	Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU18
20	None	Claiborne Group	None	None	None	2-4-2	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0359	None	None	DMU19
21	Tco	Cockfield Formation	Cockfield Formation	Eocene	Deltaic deposits dominated by clays in the upper portions of the formation and sands in the lower portion. Clays are gray to brown in color, silty to fine sandy, plastic, strongly carbonaceous with thin beds of lignite common, slightly micaceous, and locally pyritic. Sands are quartzose and are cross bedded to massive, locally lignitic, and can be silty to clayey.	2-4-2-1	DMU Unit 1	Tco	Tco	237,222,130	None	OF0359	Sandstone and mudstone	Medium	DMU20

Glossary

OBJECTID	Term	Definition	DefinitionSourceID	Glossary_ID
13	borehole	A point representing the electrical log from a hole drilled in the earth. Log locations are sourced and modified from https://geology.deq.ms.gov/environmental/boreholes/	OF0359	GLO01
10	boundary	Map outline generated through GeMS toolset in NAD83Z15N covering an area measuring 7.5 minutes of latitude by 7.5 longitude and commonly called a 7.5 minute quadrangle map.	DAS2	GLO02
1	certain	Identity of a feature can be determined using relevant observations and scientific judgment; therefore, one can be reasonably confident in the credibility of this interpretation.	FGDC-STD-013-2006	GLO03
11	contact	Strata that do or do not supersede underlying units in immediate stratigraphic order. A general term applied to strata deposited upon older units after a hiatus in sedimentation, with or without any erosion of the older subjacent unit.	DAS3	GLO04
3	DMU-Heading1	Paragraph style for formatted description of first-rank heading.Times New Roman, bold, 14 pt, 0 pt leading, left justified, 0 pt left indent.	DAS2	GLO05
4	DMU-Heading2	Paragraph style for formatted description of second-rank map heading.Times New Roman, 14 pt, 0 pt leading, left justified, 0 pt left indent.	DAS2	GLO06
5	DMU-Heading3	Paragraph style for formatted description of third-rank map heading.Times New Roman, 12 pt, 0 pt leading, left justified, 0 pt left indent.	DAS2	GLO07
6	DMU Unit 1	Paragraph style for formatted description of first-rank map unit. Times New Roman, 12 pt, 0 pt leading, left justified, 0 pt left indent.	DAS2	GLO08
14	elog	Electrical Log digitized from the Mississippi Office of Geology; Environmental Geology Division for the cross-section	OF0359	GLO09
15	ground	The Vertical Profile for the cross section	OF0359	GLO10
7	High	In terms of geomaterial confidence, geologist is confident in the characterization of the geologic materials	FGDC-STD-013-2006	GLO11
12	Line_of_Section	A 2-dimensional line representing the surface of a three dimensional cross-section	OF0359	GLO12
8	Medium	In terms of geomaterial confidence, geologist isonly somewhat confident in the characterization of the geologic materials	FGDC-STD-013-2006	GLO13
16	neatline	The boundary of the map or cross-section	OF0359	GLO14
17	scale	The vertical scale of the cross section	OF0359	GLO15
18	sea level	Sea level is the global mean height of the ocean's surface	OF0359	GLO16

MiscellaneousMapInformation

OBJECTID	MapProperty	MapPropertyValue	MiscellaneousMapInformation_ID
1	Author(s)	Leard, J.R.; Starnes, J.E.; Palmer, T.J.; Usachenko, N.S.	MMI1
2	Map Scale	24000	MMI2
3	Publication Code	OFR-0359	MMI3
4	Publication Date	06302026	MMI4
5	Publication URL	https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/geology/work-areas/publications-and-map-sales/categories/open-file-reports/of-359-geologic-map-of-the-magee-north-quadrangle-simpson-and-smith-counties-mississippi-105370/	MMI5
6	Publishing Agency	Mississippi Office of Geology	MMI6
7	Title	Geologic Map of the Magee Nroth Quadrangle Simpson and Smith Counties, Mississippi	MMI7

This summary of database content is provided as a convenience to GIS analysts, reviewers, and others. It is not part of the GeMS compliance criteria.

DataSources, nonspatial table, 5 rows
DescriptionOfMapUnits, nonspatial table, 20 rows
GeoMaterialDict, nonspatial table, 101 rows
Glossary, nonspatial table, 16 rows
MiscellaneousMapInformation, nonspatial table, 7 rows
GeologicMap, feature dataset
MapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 97 rows
ContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 110 rows
GeologicLines, simple polyline feature class, 1 rows
GenericPoints, simple point feature class, 3 rows
CorrelationOfMapUnits, feature dataset
CMUMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 8 rows
CMULines, simple polyline feature class, 73 rows
CMUPoints, simple point feature class, 6 rows
CrossSectionA, feature dataset
CSACartographicLines, simple polyline feature class, 77 rows
CSAMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 22 rows
CSAContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 41 rows