{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "California Water Science Center", "hasEmail": "mailto:gs-w-cawsc_science_comm@usgs.gov"}, "description": "Ten hydrogeologic provinces of California are represented by a region-\nclass feature called \"provinces\" within this digital data set.  These\nprovinces were identified and defined in the USGS Water Resource\nInvestigation Report (WRIR) 03-4166 (Belitz and others, 2003) titled,\n\"Framework for a Ground-water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Plan for\nCalifornia\". Hydrogeologic provinces are generalized areas where hydrology\nand/or geology have similar characteristics.  The Southern Cal Islands\ngroup was not previously defined as a province in WRIR 03-4166, and is\ntherefore identified as a group in this dataset.\n\t\t\nThese provinces were created by grouping polygons from two formally created\ndigital data sets into respective provinces. New polygons were created\nwhere necessary. The two digital data set sources consisted of watershed\npolygons (calwater) and groundwater basin polygons (gw_basins) compiled to\ncreate an original publication of hydrogeologic province boundaries in the\nform of a region-class within the data set.  By symbolizing on the region-\nclass, the user can view the ten hydrogeologic provinces and one grouped\nprovince in their simplest representation, without watershed and ground-\nwater basin boundaries obscuring the province areas.\n\t\t\nOriginal polygons for both the watershed data set and the ground-water basin\ndata set were retained as much as possible.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UTSDXK", "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.1d6d814e-50bb-45a8-b0d4-df34224336fc.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_1d6d814e-50bb-45a8-b0d4-df34224336fc", "keyword": ["California", "Ground water basins", "USGS:1d6d814e-50bb-45a8-b0d4-df34224336fc", "environment", "geologic province", "geoscientificInformation", "hydrogeologic provinces", "hydrogeology", "inlandWaters"], "modified": "2020-11-17T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-124.507713, 32.425411, -113.488193, 42.067259", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Hydrogeologic Provinces for California based upon established groundwater basins and watershed polygons."}