## GeMS validation of MS_2025_NewByram_2-2.gdb

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Database path: \\surfacegeo\SurfaceGeologyCommons\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2-submittal\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2-database\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2.gdb
Output directory: \\surfacegeo\SurfaceGeologyCommons\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\ValidationScratch
Metadata file: \\surfacegeo\SurfaceGeologyCommons\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2-submittal\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2\MS_2025_NewByram_2-2.gdb-vFgdcMetadata.xml
Check embedded metadata: False
Skip topology check: False
Refresh GeoMaterialDict: True
Delete extra rows in Glossary and DataSources: False
Compact GDB: True
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_NewByram_2-2.gdb-ValidationErrors.html and MS_2025_NewByram_2-2.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.
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### Contents

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

### Compliance Criteria

#### 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

### Warnings

There are 0 warnings

### Content not specified in GeMS schema

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

### Occurrence of MapUnit in DMU, feature datasets, or geopackage tables

MapUnit | DescriptionOfMapUnits | CrossSectionA | GeologicMap | CorrelationOfMapUnits
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Qal | X | X | X | X
Tco | X | X | -- | X
Ty | X | X | X | X
Tv | X | X | X | X
Tmb | X | X | -- | X
Tbu | X | X | -- | --
Tca | X | X | X | X
Tfh | X | X | X | X
Tbt | X | X | X | X

### Contents of Nonspatial Tables

#### 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.; Usachenko, N.S.; Starnes, J.E.; Palmer, T.J., 2026, Geologic Map of the New Byram Hinds and Rankin Counties, Mississippi. Mississippi Office of Geology Open-File Report 360. 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-360-geologic-map-of-the-new-byram-quadrangle-hinds-and-rankin-counties-mississippi-105372/ | OF0360

#### DescriptionOfMapUnits

OBJECTID | MapUnit | Name | FullName | Age | Description | HierarchyKey | ParagraphStyle | Label | Symbol | AreaFillRGB | AreaFillPatternDescription | DescriptionSourceID | GeoMaterial | GeoMaterialConfidence | DescriptionOfMapUnits_ID
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
3 | None | Quaternary | None | None | None | 1 | DMU-Heading1 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU01
4 | None | Holocene | None | None | None | 1-1 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU02
5 | 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 ft along larger streams, thinning up tributaries. | 1-1-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Qal | Qal | 255,255,179 | None | OF0360 | Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained | Medium | DMU03
6 | None | Tertiary | None | None | None | 2 | DMU-Heading1 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU04
7 | None | Pliocene | None | None | None | 2-1 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU05
8 | Tbt | Brookhaven Terrace | Brookhaven 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 lengths of 3 in; clasts composed chiefly of chert with lesser amounts of quartz. 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 500 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 | Tbt | Tbt | 255,133,0 | None | OF0360 | Sand and gravel of unspecified origin | Medium | DMU06
9 | None | Oligocene | None | None | None | 2-2 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU07
10 | None | Grand Gulf Group | None | None | None | 2-2-1 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU08
11 | Tca | Catahoula Formation | Catahoula Formation | Oligocene | Deltaic to marine sands, silts, clays, sandstone, and sparse gravel. 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. Opaline silica-filled vugs and lignite are common in basal clay intervals. Unit is fossiliferous in part, particularly marine bioturbated in the lower beds and commonly containing leaf fossils in the upper beds. The Catahoula Formation unconformably overlies and locally incises into the underlying Bucatunna Formation. Total thickness of the formation not achieved on this map. | 2-2-1-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Tca | Tca | 252,89,102 | None | OF0360 | Sandstone and mudstone | Medium | DMU09
12 | None | Oligocene | None | None | None | 2-3 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU10
13 | None | Vicksburg Group | None | None | None | 2-3-1 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU11
14 | 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 | OF0360 | Mudstone | High | DMU12
15 | Tv | Vicksburg Formation | Vicksburg Formation | Oligocene | Includes the undifferentiated successive marine units, listed in descending stratigraphic order: Bucatunna Formation, Byram Formation, Glendon Formation, Marianna Formation; and Mint Spring Formation. The Bucatunna Formation consists of carbonaceous clays dark brown to gray in color, silty to fine sandy, averaging about 45 ft in thickness. 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 Spring Formation consists of gray to green colored glauconitic and fossiliferous marly quartz sand, with a thickness of approximately 15 ft in the mapping area. The Vicksburg Group is biostratigraphically characterized by the presence of the mollusk 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 | OF0360 | Mostly carbonate rock | High | DMU13
16 | 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 seams 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 member 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 | OF0360 | Sandstone and mudstone | Medium | DMU14
17 | None | Eocene | None | None | None | 2-4 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU15
18 | None | Jackson Group | None | None | None | 2-4-1 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU16
19 | Ty | Yazoo Formation | Yazoo Formation | Eocene | Outer neritic to bathyal marine clay. Clay is calcareous and montmorillonitic, blue-green when unweathered. Sparingly fossiliferous, with marine mollusk shell hash common along partings. Bentonite seams present. Limestone ledges occur in places. The Yazoo Formation is marked by the planktonic foraminifera Hantkenina alabamensis. The Yazoo Formation conformably overlies the Moodys Branch Formation. Total thickness is approximately 400 ft in mapping area. | 2-4-1-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Ty | Ty | 255,204,0 | None | OF0360 | Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU17
20 | 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 | OF0360 | Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU18
21 | None | Claiborne Group | None | None | None | 2-4-2 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0360 | None | None | DMU19
22 | Tco | Cockfield Formation | Cockfield Formation | Eocene | Deltaic to estuarine 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, highly carbonaceous with thin beds of lignite common, slightly micaceous, and locally pyritic. Sands are quartzose, cross bedded to massive, locally lignitic, and can be silty to clayey. Total thickness not represented in cross section. | 2-4-2-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Tco | Tco | 237,222,130 | None | OF0360 | Sandstone and mudstone | Medium | DMU20

#### Glossary

OBJECTID | Term | Definition | DefinitionSourceID | Glossary_ID
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
12 | 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/ | OF0360 | GLO01
9 | 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. | FGDC-STD-013-2006 | 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
10 | 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. | DAS2 | 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
13 | elog | Electrical Log digitized from the Mississippi Office of Geology; Environmental Geology Division for the cross-section | OF0360 | GLO09
14 | ground | The Vertical Profile for the cross section | OF0360 | GLO10
7 | High | In terms of geomaterial confidence, geologist is confident in the characterization of the geologic materials | DAS2 | GLO11
11 | Line_of_Section | A 2-dimensional line representing the surface of a three dimensional cross-section | DAS3 | GLO12
8 | Medium | In terms of geomaterial confidence, geologist isonly somewhat confident in the characterization of the geologic materials | FGDC-STD-013-2006 | GLO13
15 | neatline | The boundary of the map or cross-section | OF0360 | GLO14
16 | scale | The vertical scale of the cross section | OF0360 | GLO15
17 | sea level | Sea level is the global mean height of the ocean's surface | OF0360 | GLO16

#### MiscellaneousMapInformation

OBJECTID | MapProperty | MapPropertyValue | MiscellaneousMapInformation_ID
--- | --- | --- | ---
1 | Author(s) | Leard, J.R.; Usachenko, N.S.; Starnes, J.E.; Palmer, T.J. | MMI1
2 | Map Scale | 24000 | MMI2
3 | Publication Code | OFR-0360 | 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-360-geologic-map-of-the-new-byram-quadrangle-hinds-and-rankin-counties-mississippi-105372/ | MMI5
6 | Publishing Agency | Mississippi Office of Geology | MMI6
7 | Title | Geologic Map of the New Byram Quadrangle Hinds and Rankin Counties, Mississippi | MMI7

### Database Inventory

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, 70 rows
ContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 86 rows
GeologicLines, simple polyline feature class, 1 rows
GenericPoints, simple point feature class, 7 rows
CorrelationOfMapUnits, feature dataset
CMUMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 8 rows
CMULines, simple polyline feature class, 68 rows
CMUPoints, simple point feature class, 6 rows
CrossSectionA, feature dataset
CSAMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 24 rows
CSAContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 27 rows
CSACartographicLines, simple polyline feature class, 56 rows