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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.
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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
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The same map but not shaded: Great Lakes bathymetry map 2.png

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current15:46, 9 May 2015Thumbnail for version as of 15:46, 9 May 20151,024 × 731 (1.34 MB)Darekk2 (talk | contribs)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 2015Thumbnail for version as of 10:03, 25 March 20151,024 × 731 (1.34 MB)Darekk2 (talk | contribs)changed illumination for shaded relief
01:29, 25 March 2015Thumbnail for version as of 01:29, 25 March 20151,024 × 731 (1.33 MB)Darekk2 (talk | contribs)changed palette a little
20:21, 24 March 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:21, 24 March 20151,024 × 731 (1.61 MB)Darekk2 (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

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