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Collection of Karst Data from Minnesota

Summary

The Karst database is now (06/30/2020) being managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Ecological and Water Resources. Since the early 1980s, the partner agencies have been mapping karst features and publishing various versions of their results in the form of 1:100,000 scale County Geologic Atlases. In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources was assigned responsibility for the hydrogeology portions of the County Atlases, and therefore is now responsible for the karst mapping. Sinkhole distribution maps have been published for several counties. The karst feature database has been developed to allow sinkhole and other karst feature distributions to be displayed and analyzed across existing county [...]

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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Ecological and Water Resources

Purpose

Store information about karst lands in Minnesota, including springs, sinkholes and other karst features.

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Provenance

This collection record was derived from a survey of State Geological Survey organizations conducted under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program. Final Harvest from State Inventory on Fri Nov 12 16:28:08 CST 2010

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Type Scheme Key
sourceSystem CSC 1553878
UniqueKey State Inventory P1502

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