|
These data were created as part of a hydrologic study to characterize groundwater budgets and water quality in the Diamond Valley Flow System (DVFS), central Nevada. This dataset represents the groundwater discharge area (GDA) in the DVFS. Vegetated areas within the GDA are composed of phreatophytic shrubs with smaller areas of grassland, marshland, xeric vegetation, bare soil, and agricultural lands where phreatophytic shrubs historically were present. Vegetated areas outside the GDA are primarily composed of xeric vegetation and bare soil although very sparse phreatophytic shrubs may be present on the outer margins of the boundary. The GDA was mapped in the summer of 2011 using field reconnaissance and supporting...
Tags: Antelope Valley,
Diamond Valley,
Discharge,
ET,
ET unit, All tags...
Elko County,
Eureka County,
Evaporation,
Evapotranspiration,
Great Basin,
Groundwater,
Groundwater Discharge,
Kobeh Valley,
Lander County,
Monitor Valley, Northern Part,
Monitor Valley, Southern Part,
NSDI,
Nevada,
Nye County,
Phreatophyte,
Transpiration,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
environment,
inlandWaters,
inlandWaters, Fewer tags
|
These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. With increasing population growth and land-use change, urban communities in the desert southwest are progressively looking to remote basins to supplement existing water supplies. Recent applications for groundwater appropriations from Dixie Valley, Nevada, a primarily undeveloped basin neighboring the Carson Desert to the east, have prompted a reevaluation of the quantity of naturally discharging groundwater.The objective of this...
Categories: pre-SM502.8;
Tags: Churchill County,
Dixie Valley,
ET,
ET unit,
Evaporation, All tags...
Evapotranspiration,
Great Basin,
Groundwater,
Groundwater discharge,
NSDI,
Nevada,
Pershing County,
Phreatophyte,
Transpiration,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
inlandWaters, Fewer tags
|
|