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Study Area Boundary Malakoff DIggins State Historic Park, California

One of the largest hydraulic mines (1.6 km2) is located in California’s Sierra Nevada within the Humbug Creek watershed and Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park (MDSHP). MDSHP’s denuded and dissected landscape is composed of weathered Eocene auriferous sediments susceptible to chronic rill and gully erosion whereas block failures and debris flows occur in more cohesive terrain. This data release includes a 2014 digital elevation model (DEM), a study area boundary, and a geomorphic map. The 2014 DEM was derived from an available aerial LiDAR dataset collected in 2014 by the California Department of Conservation. The geomorphic map was derived for the study area from using a multi-scale spatial analysis. A topographic position index (TPI) was created using focal statistics to compare the elevations across the study area. We calculated a fine-scale TPI using a circular neighborhood with a radius of 25-meters and large-scale TPI using a circular neighborhood with a radius of 100-meters. In the resulting raster positive TPI values are assigned to cells with elevations higher than the surrounding area and negative TPI values are assigned to cells with elevations lower than the surrounding area. The geomorphic map was then created using a nested conditional statement to apply classification thresholds on the basis the fine and large-scale TPI rasters and a slope raster. Ten geomorphic feature classes were defined and the map can be symbolized by feature class. The geomorphic map includes both channel and hillslope features and can be used to assess erosional and depositional processes at the landscape scale.

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Author(s) Jennifer A Curtis orcid
Publication Date 2017-01-01
Beginning Date of Data 2014-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2014-01-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/F7ST7NQZ
Citation Curtis, J.A., 2017, Study Area Boundary Malakoff DIggins State Historic Park, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7ST7NQZ.
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