Citation:

PANGAEA.931870

Name: Potentiometric surface of the Mammoth Cave Area
Creator: Rachel Bosch
Published: 2021-05-27
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: groundwater contours; potentiometric surface; raster layer; shapefile

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Published: 2021-05-27 • DOI registered: 2021-07-29

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Abstract:

In 1981, Jim Quinlan and Joe Ray first published, “Groundwater Basins of the Mammoth Cave Region, Kentucky, Showing Springs, Major Caves, Flow Routes, and Potentiometric Surface.” Occasional Publication. Mammoth Cave, Kentucky: Friends of the Karst. Since then the springs, cave entrances, flow routes, and inferred drainage basins have been digitized as shapefiles for use in GIS analyses. These are available through the Geospatial Data Library at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky Geological Survey website (https://www.uky.edu/KGS/gis/kgs_gis.htm), under the Karst Dye Traces link. This current dataset complements the existing one by making the potentiometric surface available as georeferenced files for use in GIS. I georeferenced the original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981) and then digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours. These are in the data set as the shapefiles, QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.* A raster surface was then interpolated using these lines and is available here as PotentiometricSurfaceInterpolated.bil.

Keyword(s):

groundwater contours; potentiometric surface; raster layer; shapefile

Coverage:

Latitude: 37.190000 * Longitude: -86.120000

Event(s):

Mammoth-Cave * Latitude: 37.190000 * Longitude: -86.120000

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator
1	Binary Object	Binary		Bosch, Rachel
2	Binary Object (Media Type)	Binary (Type)		Bosch, Rachel
3	Binary Object (File Size)	Binary (Size)	Bytes	Bosch, Rachel
4	File content	Content		Bosch, Rachel

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)

Size:

14 data points

Data

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1 Binary	2 Binary (Type)	3 Binary (Size) [Bytes]	4 Content
PotentiometricSurfaceInterpolated.bil	text/plain	255.9 MBytes	A raster surface was then interpolated using the lines from QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.*
PotentiometricSurfaceInterpolated.prj	text/plain	599 Bytes	?
QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.cpg	text/plain	5 Bytes	Digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours from original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981)
QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.dbf	application/octet-stream	1.1 kBytes	Digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours from original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981)
QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.prj	text/plain	402 Bytes	Digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours from original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981)
QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.shp	application/octet-stream	310.7 kBytes	Digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours from original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981)
QuinlanAndRay_GWContours_16N.shx	application/octet-stream	476 Bytes	Digitized the groundwater potentiometric surface contours from original paper map (Quinlan and Ray, 1981)