File:Great Lakes bathymetry map.png

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DescriptionGreat Lakes bathymetry map.png	English: Great Lakes bathymetry and surrounding area shaded relief map. Lakes are contoured with interval 100 m. Lake Superior is incomplete. The map was created using the Generic Mapping Tools, GMT, version 5.1.1.
Date	24 March 2015
Source	Own work using: the following Public Domain datasets (grids): Great Lakes Bathymetry from National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/greatlakes.html. Credits: National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Bathymetry of Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5KS6PHK [access date: 2015-03-23]. National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Bathymetry of Lake Huron. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5G15XS5 [access date: 2015-03-23]. National Geophysical Data Center, 1996. Bathymetry of Lake Michigan. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5B85627 [access date: 2015-03-23]. National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Bathymetry of Lake Ontario. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V56H4FBH [access date: 2015-03-23]. National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Bathymetry of Lake Superior. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. [access date: 2015-03-23]. (the general reference to NGDC because this lake was never published, compilation of Great Lakes Bathymetry at NGDC has been suspended). GLOBE http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/gltiles.html - land part of this map. Credits: National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) v.1. Hastings, D. and P.K. Dunbar. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V52R3PMS [access date: 2015-03-16]. The color palette of the depth scale was made to be more or less similar to the color palettes used on the NGDC Great Lakes maps. This map was created with GMT.
Author	Darekk2 using the Great Lakes Bathymetry and GLOBE tiles
Other versions	The same map but not shaded: Great Lakes bathymetry map 2.png

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:46, 9 May 2015	1,024 × 731 (1.34 MB)	Darekk2	more accurate shorelines, the lakes tiles better assembled, added Canada, USA and Lake St. Clair labels, moved Detroit label, Michigan Lake - retouched western part of Green Bay
	10:03, 25 March 2015	1,024 × 731 (1.34 MB)	Darekk2	changed illumination for shaded relief
	01:29, 25 March 2015	1,024 × 731 (1.33 MB)	Darekk2	changed palette a little
	20:21, 24 March 2015	1,024 × 731 (1.61 MB)	Darekk2	User created page with UploadWizard

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