GLiM - Global Lithological Map

The GLiM v1.0 has been developed as tool for global modeling in a detail yet unmatched. The database contains about 1,2 million polygons. The "average" resolution is 1:3 750 000. The map is about 100 times more detailed than previous global lithological maps.

The map can be ordered HERE (external link to www.ccgm.org)

The original GIS data are downloadable using the link of CCGM.ORG

A 3D viewer of the map is available HERE

An article presenting the map has been published and a 0.5° raster version of the map is downloadable from PANGEA archive.

Selected publications from the project

Gleeson, T., Smith, L., Moosdorf, N. Hartmann, J., Dürr, H.H., Manning, A.H., van Beek, L.P.H., & Jellinek, A.M., 2011, Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth: Geophys. Res. Lett., 38: L02401. (Link)

Moosdorf, N., Hartmann, J. & Dürr, H.H., (2010). Lithological composition of the North American continent and implications of lithological map resolution for dissolved silica flux modeling. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 11:Q11003. (Link)

Jansen, N., Hartmann, J., Lauerwald, R., Dürr, H.H., Kempe, S., Loos, S. & Middelkoop, H., 2010. Dissolved silica mobilization in the conterminous USA. Chemical Geology, 270(1-4):90-109 (Link).

Hartmann, J., Jansen, N., Dürr, H.H., Harashima, A., Okubo, K. & Kempe, S., 2010. Predicting riverine dissolved silica fluxes into coastal zones from a hyperactive region and analysis of their first order controls. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99(1): 207-230 (Link)

Hartmann, J., Jansen, N., Kempe, S. & Dürr, H.H., 2007. Geochemistry of the river rhine and the upper danube: Recent trends and lithological influence on baselines. Journal of Environmental Science for Sustainable Society, 1: 39-46.(Link)