{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Carol J. Becker", "hasEmail": "mailto:cjbecker@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This data set consists of digitized water-level elevation\ncontours for the High Plains aquifer in western Oklahoma. This\narea encompasses the panhandle counties of Cimarron, Texas, and\nBeaver, and the western counties of Harper, Ellis, Woodward,\nDewey, and Roger Mills. The High Plains aquifer underlies\napproximately 7,000 square miles of Oklahoma and is used\nextensively for irrigation. The High Plains aquifer is a\nwater-table aquifer and consists predominately of the\nTertiary-age Ogallala Formation and overlying Quaternary-age\nalluvial and terrace deposits. In some areas the aquifer is\nabsent and the underlying Triassic, Jurassic, or Cretaceous-age\nrocks are exposed at the surface. These rocks are hydraulically\nconnected with the aquifer in some areas.\nThe High Plains aquifer is composed of interbedded sand,\nsiltstone, clay, gravel, thin limestones, and caliche. The\nproportion of various lithological materials changes rapidly\nfrom place to place, but poorly sorted sand and gravel\npredominate. The rocks are poorly to moderately well cemented by\ncalcium carbonate.\nThe water-level elevations were measured in January, February,\nand March 1980 and ranged from about 4,650 feet above sea level\nin Cimarron County to about 2,000 feet above sea level in\nWoodward County. The water-level elevation contours were\ndigitized from folded paper maps in a published report. The\nsource maps were published at a scale of 1:250,000.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OEZUGM", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.47fa498d-51a0-40b8-a070-ffd59f9831bb.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_47fa498d-51a0-40b8-a070-ffd59f9831bb", "keyword": ["High Plains aquifer", "Ogallala Formation", "Ogallala aquifer", "USGS:47fa498d-51a0-40b8-a070-ffd59f9831bb", "aquifers", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "ground water", "ground-water level elevation", "ground-water level elevation contours", "ground-water levels", "ground-water vulnerability", "groundwater", "groundwater level elevation", "groundwater level elevation contours", "groundwater levels", "groundwater vulnerability", "inlandWaters", "northwestern Oklahoma", "panhandle of Oklahoma", "water level contours", "water level elevation", "water level elevation contours", "water levels", "water-level contours", "water-level elevation", "water-level elevation contours", "western Oklahoma", "western counties in Oklahoma"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-102.8907, 35.3152, -99.3046, 37.1223", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the High Plains aquifer in western Oklahoma"}