## GeMS validation of MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2.gdb

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Database path: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2-submittal\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2-database\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2.gdb
Output directory: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\ValidationScratch
Metadata file: S:\GeMS\Submittals\Statemap2025_Submittals\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2-submittal\MS_2025_Bentonia_2-2\MS_2025_Bentonia_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_Bentonia_2-2.gdb-ValidationErrors.html and MS_2025_Bentonia_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 | GeologicMap | CrossSectionA | CorrelationOfMapUnits
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Qtl | X | X | X | X
Tmb | X | -- | X | X
Tcm | X | -- | X | X
Ql | X | X | -- | X
Tco | X | -- | X | X
Ty | X | X | X | X
Qal | X | X | X | X
Qtpl | 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 Palmer, T.J.; Leard, J.R.; Starnes, J.E.; Usachenko, N.S. 2026, Geologic Map of the Bentonia Quadrangle Madison and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi. Mississippi Office of Geology Open-File Report 365. 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-365-geologic-map-of-the-bentonia-quadrangle-yazoo-and-madison-counties-mississippi-105378/ | OF0365

#### 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 | OF0365 | None | None | DMU01
2 | None | Holocene | None | None | None | 1-1 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | 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 | OF0365 | Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU03
4 | Qtl | Stream Terrace | Stream Terrace | Holocene | Fluvial deposits associated with base elevation change with the incision of the Pearl River during the Pleistocene epoch just west of French's Store; Sand, yellow- to brownish-white in color, fine- to coarse-grained, subrounded to rounded, predominately quartzose, locally graveliferous, silty to clayey; humus lenses common. Silicified wood may be common. | 1-1-2 | DMU Unit 1 | Qtl | Qtl | 255,255,179 | Speckled Pattern of 255,161,0 | OF0365 | Alluvial sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU04
5 | None | Pleistocene | None | None | None | 1-2 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | None | None | DMU05
6 | Ql | Loess | Loess | Pleistocene | Silt, buff to tan, pale yellow, red, gray to gray-green where in anoxic conditions, quartzose to feldspathic. Loess is considered an eolian deposit derived from glacial outwash. Loess is typically calcareous with dolomite and calcite; however, the upper portion of the loess can be deeply weathered, leached / noncalcareous, and has been commonly referred to as "brown loam." Loess deposits unconformably blanket the pre-loess topography with substantial local variations in thickness but generally thickening towards the west. In places, weathered loess contains secondary deposits of small calcareous concretions such as caliche and loess dolls. Loess can be locally and sparingly fossiliferous, commonly containing tests or steinkerns of pulmonate gastropods and less commonly containing fossils of Pleistocene vertebrates. | 1-2-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Ql | Ql | None | Hollow cirlces of 38,115,0 | OF0365 | Loess | High | DMU06
7 | Qtpl | Pre-Loess Terrace Deposits | Pre-Loess Terrace Deposits | Pleistocene | Pleistocene ancestral Mississippi River terraces deposited prior to Pleistocene loessification. Sand, yellow, orange, purple, red, pink, fine- to coarse-grained, predominantly quartzose, cross-bedded to massive; graveliferous, pea to large cobble size clasts, boulder size ice-rafted clasts of sandstone and chert. Economically significant gravels are predominantly chert with lesser amounts of vein quartz, metaquartzite, agate, sandstone, and rare rhyolite clasts; clay, pink to white, generally occurring as discontinuous lenses and as rip-up clasts up to boulder-size. Conglomeratic ironstone ledges are common in the graveliferous sands at the base of the deposits. The base of this terrace occurs at approximately 250 ft MSL and is masked by about 40 ft of loess overburden. | 1-2-2 | DMU Unit 1 | Qtpl | Qtpl | 255,214,230 | None | OF0365 | Alluvial sediment, mostly coarse-grained | Medium | DMU07
8 | None | Tertiary | None | None | None | 2 | DMU-Heading1 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | None | None | DMU08
9 | None | Eocene | None | None | None | 2-1 | DMU-Heading2 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | None | None | DMU09
10 | None | Jackson Group | None | None | None | 2-1-1 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | None | None | DMU10
11 | 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. | 2-1-1-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Ty | Ty | 255,204,0 | None | OF0365 | Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU11
12 | Tmb | Moodys Branch Formation | Moodys Branch Formation | Eocene | The Moodys Branch Formation is the basal member of a marine transgression towards the close of the Eocene epoch in the northern Gulf, 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. | 2-1-1-2 | DMU Unit 1 | Tmb | Tmb | 171,107,79 | None | OF0365 | Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained | High | DMU12
13 | None | Claiborne Group | None | None | None | 2-1-2 | DMU-Heading3 | None | None | None | None | OF0365 | None | None | DMU13
14 | 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 and are cross bedded to massive, locally lignitic, and can be silty to clayey. Conformably overlies the Cook Mountain Formation. Thickness is approximately 400 feet. | 2-1-2-1 | DMU Unit 1 | Tco | Tco | 237,222,130 | None | OF0365 | Sandstone and mudstone | Medium | DMU14
15 | 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 feet. | 2-1-2-2 | DMU Unit 1 | Tcm | Tcm | 168,135,97 | None | OF0365 | Marine sediment, mostly fine-grained | Medium | DMU15

#### 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/ | OF0365 | 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 | OF0365 | GLO09
15 | ground | The Vertical Profile for the cross section | OF0365 | 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 | OF0365 | 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 | OF0365 | GLO14
17 | scale | The vertical scale of the cross section | OF0365 | GLO15
18 | sea level | Sea level is the global mean height of the ocean's surface | OF0365 | 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-0365 | 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-365-geologic-map-of-the-bentonia-quadrangle-yazoo-and-madison-counties-mississippi-105378/ | MMI5
6 | Publishing Agency | Mississippi Office of Geology | MMI6
7 | Title | Geologic Map of the Bentonia Quadrangle Madison and Yazoo 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, 15 rows
GeoMaterialDict, nonspatial table, 101 rows
Glossary, nonspatial table, 16 rows
MiscellaneousMapInformation, nonspatial table, 7 rows
GeologicMap, feature dataset
MapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 80 rows
MapUnitOverlayPolys, simple polygon feature class, 1 rows
ContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 186 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, 52 rows
CMUPoints, simple point feature class, 4 rows
CrossSectionA, feature dataset
CSACartographicLines, simple polyline feature class, 47 rows
CSAMapUnitPolys, simple polygon feature class, 16 rows
CSAContactsAndFaults, simple polyline feature class, 21 rows