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Ken Pierce's Legacy Field Notebooks and Annotated Aerial Photographs, Geological, and Topographical Maps from Across the Western United States 1963-2021(ver. 2.0, January 2024)

Ken Pierce was a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey for over 55 years and authored numerous scientific papers, geologic maps, and field trip guides. This data release contains digital scans of 64 field notebooks 713 annotated aerial photographs, and 640 annotated geologic and topographic maps authored or annotated by Ken Pierce or his collaborators. Information contained in these notebooks, aerial photographs, and maps provide much of the underpinning of Ken Pierce's research, which focused largely on the glacial and geomorphological history of Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas.

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Author(s) Todd M Preston orcid, Kenneth L Pierce, Keenan J Tjahjana, Jesus Martinez Torres
Publication Date 2023-01-25
Beginning Date of Data 1965-07-05
Ending Date of Data 2018-07-06
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P91WVUXO
Citation Preston, T.M., Pierce, K.L., Tjahjana, K.J., and Torres, J.M., 2023, Ken Pierce's Legacy Field Notebooks and Annotated Aerial Photographs, Geological, and Topographical Maps from Across the Western United States 1963-2021(ver. 2.0, January 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91WVUXO.
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Metadata Date 2024-01-18
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