Research Data--KGS
New Surficial Geologic Mapping along the I-65 Corridor in Bullitt, Hardin, and Nelson Counties, Kentucky
Researcher ORCID Identifier
Matthew A. Massey: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3316-9550
Files
Dataset Creation Date
10-9-2020
Release Date
10-19-2020
Publisher
University of Kentucky Libraries
Description
This project presents new surficial geologic mapping that will address immediate societal needs and support new scientific discovery in an area of west-central Kentucky prioritized with the guidance of the Kentucky State Geological Mapping Advisory Committee (KSGMAC). The new mapping presented represents four new 1:24,000-scale (or greater) surficial geologic maps located along the actively developing I-65 corridor south of the Louisville metropolitan area. The study area is also situated in a geologically unique area that will provide an opportunity to examine relationships of surficial deposits to groundwater resources, geologic hazards (radon, sinkholes, and landslides), and Quaternary landscape evolution of the Midwest United States. This project has been designed to fulfill the long-range mapping plan of the Kentucky Geological Survey and the KSGMAC, will build upon previously funded (FY2013-2014, FY2014-15, FY2015-16, FY2018-2019) U.S. Geological Survey STATEMAP projects along the I-65 corridor, and provide detailed surficial geologic datasets for Bullitt County and Hardin County compilation maps.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.data.2020.02
Rights
© 2020 University of Kentucky
This dataset is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the dataset creators and source are credited and that changes (if any) are clearly indicated.
Supporting Information
Please see the Readme file.
File Format
Readme file: Text document (.txt)
ESRI geodatabase: InterBase file (.gdb)
Geodatabase in non-proprietary format: Shapefiles and dBASE tables (.shp and .dbf)
FGDC-compliant metadata file for geodatabase: XML document (.xml)
Resources file: ArcGIS Pro style file (.stylx)
File Size
Readme file: 9 KB
ESRI geodatabase: 2.6 GB
Geodatabase in non-proprietary format: 41 MB
FGDC-compliant metadata for the geodatabase: 6 KB
Resources file: 6 KB
Spatial Coverage
Parts of Bullitt, Hardin, LaRue, and Nelson Counties near Elizabethtown Kentucky
Spatial extent is also contained within the GIS files.
Temporal Coverage
2019-07-15 to 2020-10-09
Funding Information
Funding for this research was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey STATEMAP award #G19AC00236 and the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Recommended Citation
Massey, M.A., Hammond, M.L., III, Bottoms, A.E., and Martin, S.L., 2020, New surficial geologic mapping along the I-65 corridor in Bullitt, Hardin, and Nelson Counties, Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Research Data, https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.data.2020.02.
Notes
Some data was compiled from pre-existing sources and references are captured within feature level metadata.