Michigan Glacial Landsystems

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Groundwater Inventory and Mapping Project, a cooperative effort between the Water Bureau - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, USGS - Michigan Water Science Center and Michigan State University - Institute of Water Research, RS&GIS and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. This project was mandated by P.A. 148 (Michigan Acts of 2003). Major funding was provided by MDEQ, supplemented with additional funds from the USGS Cooperative Water Program.

Publication_Date: June 30th, 2005

Title: Michigan Glacial Landsystems

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Online_Linkage: <http://gwmap.rsgis.msu.edu/>

Description:

Abstract:

Using GIS overlay techniques, surface formations extracted from the Quaternary geology map were combined with soil texture groups that had been reclassified from the STATSGO data, based on the Michigan Soil Management Group protocol. The concatenated surface formations and generalized soil texture categories were grouped into glacial landsystems.

Purpose:

The appropriate characterization of the hydrogeological properties of the glacial deposits in Michigan required a suitable geologic framework in order to regionalize the various data that were created from the WELLOGIC data base. This need derives both from depositional facies differences and from spatial variations in deposit thicknesses. For example, an outwash sand and gravel deposit in a short-lived glacial spillway will typically be thin, while that found in a proglacial outwash plain that received sediments for a much longer period will be thick. The compiled geologic framework builds upon the Quaternary geology maps (Farrand and Bell, 1982a, 1982b), which were improved by blending their morphological information with lithological data from the STATSGO soil association data base using the glacial landsystems perspective, an holistic form of terrain evaluation that links surface geomorphology and subsurface materials in a landscape context.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: June 30th, 2005

Time_of_Day: unknown

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.549667

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.075781

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.215229

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.632087

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Glacial

Theme_Keyword: Landsystems

Theme_Keyword: Soils

Theme_Keyword: Geology

Place:

Place_Keyword: Michigan

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Access_Constraints: No restrictions on access

Use_Constraints: No restrictions on use

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.

Contact_Organization:

Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University

Contact_Position: Senior Research Specialist

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-355-8497

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lusch@msu.edu

Browse_Graphic:

Data_Set_Credit:

Michigan State University: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services - Department of Geography

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Completeness_Report:

Data set digitized and cleaned to represent as closely as possible the source information.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Publication_Date: 1994

Title: State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) data base for Michigan

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Fort Worth, Texas

Publisher:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Online_Linkage: <URL:http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/stat_data.html>

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: STATSGO

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Michigan Natural Features Inventory and MI Dept of Natural Resources

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: Quaternary Geology of Michigan

Edition: 2.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Lansing, MI

Publisher: MDNR

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Title: MIRIS Data

Source_Scale_Denominator: 1:250,000

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Quaternary geology

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Reclassify the Quaternary geology maps (available in digital form) to extract just the surficial formations (i.e. moraine, till plain, outwash plain or lake plain). Four legend items on the Quaternary geology map ("Peat and muck", "Postglacial alluvium", "Artificial fill" and "Exposed bedrock surfaces") are not glacial surface formations per se and were coded <None> in the revised database. Two spatial edits were performed on the Quaternary geology map. All "Dune sand" polygons that did not share a boundary with the shoreline (i.e. inland dunes), as well as all "Water" polygons were flagged for removal. Using the Eliminate command in ArcGIS, the spaces originally occupied by the "inland dunes" and "Water" polygons were filled with the attribute of the adjacent formation with the longest common boundary. The "water" polygons were removed in order to avoid a difficult sliver polygon problem so that the water class from the STATSGO data (1:250,000) could be used.

Process_Date: May 2004

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Determine the dominant texture of the soil association polygons in the STATSGO data. The dominate soil texture and soil drainage class for each STATSGO data base record (i.e. MUID) were joined to the STATSGO soils map to develop a STATSGO soil texture map and a STATSGO drainage map. The processing was based on the Michigan Soil Management Group (Mokma, Whiteside and Schneider, 1974) and the component percent fields in the joined STATSGO data base. The vector polygons in this grouped texture map were dissolved on their texture group code to simplify the map.

Process_Date: May 2004

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Using GIS overlay techniques, surface formations extracted from the Quaternary geology map were combined with soil texture groups that had been reclassified from the STATSGO data, based on the Michigan Soil Management Group protocol. The concatenated surface formations - generalized soil texture categories were grouped into glacial landsystems, as follows:

Surface formation - soil texture class = Glacial Landsystem Moraine - Coarse = Ice-contact Outwash Moraine - Medium = Ice-marginal Till Moraine - Fine = Ice-marginal Till Moraine - Muck = Ice-marginal Till Moraine - Shallow Soil Over Bedrock = Ice-marginal Till Lake Plain - Coarse = Lacustrine Coarse Lake Plain - Medium = Lacustrine Fine Lake Plain - Fine = Lacustrine Fine Lake Plain - Muck = Lacustrine Fine Till Plain - Medium = Lodgement Till or Fine Supraglacial Drift Till Plain - Fine = Lodgement Till or Fine Supraglacial Drift Till Plain - Muck = Lodgement Till or Fine Supraglacial Drift Till Plain - Coarse = Proglacial Outwash Outwash Plain - Coarse = Proglacial Outwash Outwash Plain - Medium = Proglacial Outwash Outwash Plain - Fine = Proglacial Outwash Outwash Plain - Muck = Proglacial Outwash Outwash Plain - Shallow Soil Over Bedrock = Proglacial Outwash Dune Sand = Coastal Dunes Thin to Discontinuous Glacial Till Over Bedrock - "Any Soil Texture Class" = Thin Drift over Bedrock Lake Plain - Shallow Soil Over Bedrock = Thin Drift over Bedrock Till Plain - Shallow Soil Over Bedrock = Thin Drift over Bedrock "Any Surface Formation" - Bedrock = Bedrock

The final glacial landsystems map was created using the Dissolve command in ArcGIS on the "Ldsystem" field.

Process_Date: May 2004

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David P. Lusch, Ph.D.

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

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Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 10

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Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell

Row_Count: 1344

Column_Count: 1655

Vertical_Count: 1

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Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001024

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

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Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

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Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988

Altitude_Distance_Units: feet

Altitude_Encoding_Method:

Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: landsystems

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LDSYSTEM

Attribute_Definition:

Using GIS overlay techniques, surface formations extracted from the Quaternary geology map were combined with soil texture groups that had been reclassified from the STATSGO data, based on the Michigan Soil Management Group protocol. The concatenated surface formations and generalized soil texture categories were grouped into glacial landsystems.

Attribute_Definition_Source: MSU

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COUNT

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services

Contact_Person: Justin M Booth

Contact_Position: Information Technology Professional

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: 1405 South Harrison, Room 308

City: East Lansing

State_or_Province: MI

Postal_Code: 48823

Country: United States of America

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: boothj@msu.edu

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Distribution_Liability:

The State of Michigan or the Ground Water Inventory and Mapping Project partnership assumes no liability for results or conclusions drawn from use of this data.

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Transfer_Size: 7.936

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20051027

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services

Contact_Person: Justin M Booth

Contact_Position: Information Technology Professional

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: Geography Building, Michiagn State University

City: East Lansing

State_or_Province: MI

Postal_Code: 48824

Country: United States of America

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 517-432-0446

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 517-353-1821

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: boothj@msu.edu

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Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

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