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Density raster of caves in Monroe County, West Virginia

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019
End Date
2021

Citation

Cox, C.L., and Doctor, D.H., 2021, Density raster of caves in Monroe County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92JLWRM.

Summary

Monroe County, in southeastern West Virginia, hosts world-class karst within carbonate units of Mississippian and Ordovician age. There are at least 412 known caves in the county. Location data for these caves were collected from the West Virginia Speleological Survey (WVASS) Bulletin 22 (Dasher, 2019). Point features were created in ArcGIS Pro for each cave location and were used to make a point density raster. This raster displays the number of cave points per square kilometer.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Daniel H Doctor
Originator :
Cheyenne L Cox, Daniel H Doctor
Metadata Contact :
Cheyenne L Cox
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems

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CaveDensityRaster.kmz 10.14 KB application/vnd.google-earth.kmz
CaveDensityRaster.kmz.xml
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CaveDensityRaster.tif 18.21 KB image/geotiff
CaveDensityRaster.tif.aux.xml 918 Bytes application/xml
CaveDensityRaster.tif.xml
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CaveDensityRaster_MonroeCo_WV_metadata.xml
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Purpose

The purpose of these digital data is to provide the locations and the density of caves in Monroe County, West Virginia. This information can be used in land use and water resource management decisions.

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