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Database path: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_Flora_1-1\MS_2025_Flora_1-1\MS_2025_Flora-database\MS_2025_Flora_1-1.gdb
Output directory: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\ValidationScratch
Metadata file: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\ValidationScratch\MS_2025_Flora_1-1.gdb_metadata.xml
Check embedded metadata: True
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_Flora_1-1.gdb-ValidationErrors.html and MS_2025_Flora_1-1.gdb_metadata.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 Palmer, T.J.; Leard, J.R.; Starnes, J.E.; Usachenko, N.S. 2026, Geologic Map of the Flora Quadrangle Madison and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi. Mississippi Office of Geology Open-File Report 363. 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-363-geologic-map-of-the-flora-quadrangle-madison-and-yazoo-counties-mississippi-105376/	OF0363

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	OF0363	None	None	DMU01
2	None	Holocene	None	None	None	1-1	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0363	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	OF0363	Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU03
4	Qtl	Stream Terrace	Stream Terrace	Holocene	Stream terrace deposits; Sand, yellow- to brownish-white in color, fine-to coarse-grained, subrounded to rounded, predominately quartzose, locally graveliferous containing aggregate derived from the Pre-loess Terrace deposits, silty to clayey; humus lenses common; floodplain deposits are heavily loess-derived. Silicified wood common. Can contain pre-historic archeological deposits.	1-1-2	DMU Unit 1	Qtl	Qtl	255,255,179	Speckled Pattern of 255,161,0	OF0363	Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU04
5	None	Pleistocene	None	None	None	1-2	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU05
6	Ql	Loess	Loess	Pleistocene	Commonly referred to as "brown loam" Eolian deposit derived from glacial outwash. Silt, buff to tan, pale yellow, red, grey to grey-green where in anoxic conditions, quartzose to feldspathic; typically calcareous with dolomite and calcite; upper portion can be deeply weathered and noncalcareous. In places, weathered loess contains secondary deposits of small calcareous concretions. Locally contains tests or steinkerns of pulmonate gastropods and less commonly contains fossils of Pleistocene vertebrates. Loess deposits unconformably blanket underlying formations with substantial local variations in thickness but generally thickens westwardly.	1-2-1	DMU Unit 1	Ql	Ql	None	Hollow cirlces of 38,115,0	OF0363	Loess	High	DMU06
7	None	Tertiary	None	None	None	2	DMU-Heading1	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU07
8	None	Oligocene	None	None	None	2-1	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU08
9	None	Vicksburg Group	None	None	None	2-1-1	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU09
10	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.	2-1-1-1	DMU Unit 1	Tfh	Tfh	191,99,0	None	OF0363	Sandstone and mudstone	Medium	DMU10
11	None	Eocene	None	None	None	2-2	DMU-Heading2	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU11
12	None	Jackson Group	None	None	None	2-2-2	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU12
13	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 370 ft. The Yazoo Formation is marked by the planktonic foraminifera. The Yazoo Formation conformably overlies the Moodys Branch Formation.	2-2-2-1	DMU Unit 1	Ty	Ty	255,204,0	None	OF0363	Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU13
14	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.	2-2-2-2	DMU Unit 1	Tmb	Tmb	171,107,79	None	OF0363	Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained	High	DMU14
15	None	Claiborne Group	None	None	None	2-2-3	DMU-Heading3	None	None	None	None	OF0363	None	None	DMU15
16	Tco	Cockfield Formation	Cockfield Formation	Eocene	Deltaic deposits dominated by clays in the upper portions of the formation and sands in the lower portion. Clay, brown, reddish-brow to grey in color; silty to fine sandy; strongly carbonaceous to lignitic, slightly micaceous, pyritic. Carbonized and silicified plant fossils common. Underlies the Moodys Branch Formation unconformably. Total thickness is approximately 350 feet. Overlies the Cook Mountain Formation unconformably.	2-2-3-1	DMU Unit 1	Tco	Tco	237,222,130	None	OF0363	Sandstone and mudstone	Medium	DMU16
17	Tcm	Cook Mountain Formation	Cook Mountain Formation	Eocene	Marine clays, silts, and sands. Clay, chocolate brown in color. Silt, dark yellowish-brown, carbonaceous, clayey, glauconitic, micaceous, sandy. Sand, light-gray to grayish-brown, fine- to coarse-grained, quartzose, fossiliferous, silty, clayey, micaceous, carbonaceous; shaley in upper portions, cross bedded in lower portions. Unconformably overlies the Kosciusko Formation. Thickness is approximately 60 ft.	2-2-3-2	DMU Unit 1	Tcm	Tcm	168,135,97	None	OF0363	Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained	Medium	DMU17

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/	OF0363	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	OF0363	GLO09
15	ground	The Vertical Profile for the cross section	OF0363	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	OF0363	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	OF0363	GLO14
17	scale	The vertical scale of the cross section	OF0363	GLO15
18	sea level	Sea level is the global mean height of the ocean's surface	OF0363	GLO16

MiscellaneousMapInformation

OBJECTID	MapProperty	MapPropertyValue	MiscellaneousMapInformation_ID
1	Author(s)	Palmer, T.J.; Leard, J.R.; Starnes, J.E.; Usachenko, N.S.	MMI1
2	Map Scale	24000	MMI2
3	Publication Code	OFR-0363	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-363-geologic-map-of-the-flora-quadrangle-madison-and-yazoo-counties-mississippi-105376/	MMI5
6	Publishing Agency	Mississippi Office of Geology	MMI6
7	Title	Geologic Map of the Flora Quadrangle Madison and Yazoo 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, 17 rows
GeoMaterialDict, nonspatial table, 101 rows
Glossary, nonspatial table, 16 rows
MiscellaneousMapInformation, nonspatial table, 7 rows
GeologicMap, feature dataset
MapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 43 rows
MapUnitOverlayPolys, simple polygon feature class, 1 rows
ContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 70 rows
GeologicLines, simple polyline feature class, 1 rows
GenericPoints, simple point feature class, 5 rows
CorrelationOfMapUnits, feature dataset
CMUMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 8 rows
CMULines, simple polyline feature class, 55 rows
CMUPoints, simple point feature class, 4 rows
CrossSectionA, feature dataset
CSACartographicLines, simple polyline feature class, 49 rows
CSAMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 11 rows
CSAContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 15 rows