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    "fn": "Ronald B. Zelt",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:rbzelt@usgs.gov"
  },
  "description": "As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment\nProgram, an investigation of the Yellowstone River Basin study unit is\nbeing conducted to document status and trends in surface- and ground-water\nquality.  Surface-water samples are collected from streams (or lakes) at\nspecific sampling stations.  Water-quality characteristics at each station are\ninfluenced by the natural and cultural characteristics of the drainage area\nupstream from the sampling station.  Efficient quantification of the drainage\narea characteristics requires a digital map of the drainage area boundary that\nmay be processed, together with other digital thematic maps (such as geology\nor land use), in a geographic information system (GIS).  Digital drainage-area\ndata for 24 selected stream-sampling stations in the Yellowstone River Basin\nare included in this data release.  The drainage divides were identified\nchiefly using 1:100,000-scale (50 m accuracy) hypsography. Drainage areas\nbased on 1:100,000-scale hypsography data generally agree to within 5 percent\nwith drainage areas measured at 1:24,000 scale, for areas larger than 50 km2.",
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      "description": "Landing page for access to the data",
      "format": "XML",
      "mediaType": "application/http",
      "title": "Digital Data"
    },
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      "description": "The metadata original format",
      "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.14b639a3-8fa3-43a1-8df9-6996ddfbc5b5.xml",
      "format": "XML",
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  "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_14b639a3-8fa3-43a1-8df9-6996ddfbc5b5",
  "keyword": [
    "Montana",
    "North Dakota",
    "USGS:14b639a3-8fa3-43a1-8df9-6996ddfbc5b5",
    "Wyoming",
    "Yellowstone River",
    "Yellowstone River Basin",
    "drainage area",
    "drainage basin",
    "environment",
    "geoscientificInformation",
    "inlandWaters",
    "river basin",
    "watershed"
  ],
  "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z",
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    "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"
  },
  "spatial": "-111.26828878, 42.423781, -103.82351562, 47.83710942",
  "theme": [
    "geospatial"
  ],
  "title": "Drainage-area boundaries for selected sampling stations, scale 1:100,000, Yellowstone River Basin, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming"
}