Title: General process description - Annapolis -- Description: The dataset was extracted from the file surfGeol.shp of the Annapolis project archives folder. The attribute table was modified to add or remove fields. Data regarding units names were found in the Hydrogeological Atlas of the Annapolis Valley produced by the Geological Survey of Canada.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Mauricie -- Description: The dataset comes from the Geologie_Quaternaire file of the MAUR_UQTR.gdb geodatabase. The descriptions are from the final report for the project '' Caractérisation hydrogéologique du sud-ouest de la Mauricie'' that was submitted to the Ministère du Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Paskapoo -- Description: The dataset was downloaded from the site: Alberta Geological Survey (www.ags.gov.ab.ca). The dataset comes from the document DIG 2013-0002: Surficial Geology of Alberta, 1:1 000 000 scale (GIS, polygon feauture). The dataset was cut using ArcGIS to show only the Paskapoo unit formation (limites_paskapoo.shp).

Surficial geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Oak Ridges Moraine -- Description: The dataset (Digital surficial geology data of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario) was downloaded from GEOSCAN: (http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=geoscan.downloadf.fl&id=fastlink&pass=&format=FLDOWNLOADF&search=R=222772).

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - AFSOQ -- Description: The dataset comes from the file geo_poly.shp included in the project AFSOQ archives folder. Fields were added to the attribute table. Geological information comes from the bulletin "Inventaire canadien des ressources en eau souterraine: Caractérisation hydrogéologique régionale et intégrée du système aquifère fracturé du sud-ouest du Québec" produced by the Geological survey of Canada.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Saint-Mathieu Esker -- Description: The dataset comes from the geo_poly.shp file of the pkg_esker archives folder. Units descriptions are from the legende.doc document of the same folder.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Chaudiere -- Description: The dataset comes from the Quat_Chaudiere_Clip2.shp file of the Chaudière River Watershed project archives folder.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Carboniferous basin -- Description: The dataset comes from the file quaternaire.shp of the MGWI project archives folder. Descriptions were found in the Hydrogeological Atlas of the South-Central Area of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin (map 3-1).

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.

Title: General process description - Winnipeg Formation -- Description: The dataset was download from the Manitoba's Mineral Ressource website (http://www.manitoba.ca/iem/mrd/geo/gis/surfgeomap.html) in a Shapefile format (SGCMS_1_1Million.shp). The values for the unit_code field are from the DERVD_LEG field and the values for the name field are from the dataset's legend (SGCMS_Arc3_Legend.avl). The dataset was cut with ArcGIS using the file imite_bcu.shp of the Winnipeg project archives folder.

Surfical geology unit were reclassified according to Geological Survey of Canada standard surficial geology legend (http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290144) when it was possible - with the understanding that some units might not perfectly match in the new classification. The original classification is kept in the dataset.