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Geomorphic Change Data for the Little Colorado River, Arizona, USA

April 8, 2019

These data include geospatial files (shapefiles and orthorectified raster images) and an input hydrograph (csv) for a 1-dimensional unsteady hydrologic model. Shapefiles consist of active channel boundarys and channel centerlines of six reaches of the LCR beginning ~4.5 km above Grand Falls, AZ, and ending ~12.8 km downstream from Cameron, AZ. These reaches are (1) the ~4.5 km above Grand Falls reach, (2) the 1.5km below Grand Falls reach, (3) the ~18.8 km Black Falls reach, (4) the ~16.5 km above Cameron reach, (5) the ~4.7 km Cameron to Moenkopi reach, and (6) the ~8.1 km below Moenkopi reach. Raster images consist of orthorectified aerial photograph mosaics between 1933/34 and 1992. Scans of the images were acquired from either the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) or the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). The input hydrograph for the hydrologic model consists of flood data from March 1954 as measured at the Grand Falls stream gage.

Publication Year 2019
Title Geomorphic Change Data for the Little Colorado River, Arizona, USA
DOI 10.5066/P9XPWIBM
Authors David J Dean, David Topping
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Southwest Biological Science Center - Flagstaff, AZ, Headquarters