/* DATA DESCRIPTION: Citation: Bosch, Rachel (2021): Potentiometric surface of the Mammoth Cave Area [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931870 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): Binary Object (Binary) * PI: Bosch, Rachel (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-1816, boschrf@mail.uc.edu) Binary Object (Media Type) (Binary (Type)) * PI: Bosch, Rachel (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-1816, boschrf@mail.uc.edu) Binary Object (File Size) [Bytes] (Binary (Size)) * PI: Bosch, Rachel (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-1816, boschrf@mail.uc.edu) File content (Content) * PI: Bosch, Rachel (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-1816, boschrf@mail.uc.edu) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Status: Curation Level: Basic curation (URI: https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels) Size: 14 data points Files: All files referred to in data matrix can be downloaded in one go as ZIP or TAR (PANGAEA user account required). To download single files, use the filename from data matrix appended to "https://download.pangaea.de/dataset/931870/files/". */ Binary Binary (Type) Binary (Size) [Bytes] 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)