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Catalogue of Photographs Showing Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Grand Canyon, 1889-2012

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
1889
Time Period
1890
Time Period
1989
Time Period
1990
Time Period
1991
Time Period
1992
Time Period
2010
Time Period
2011
Time Period
2012

Citation

Scott, M.L., Webb, R.H., Johnson, R.R., Turner, R.M., Friedman, J.M., and Fairley, H.C., 2018, Photographs Showing Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Grand Canyon, 1889, 1991, 2010 and other years: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F76W988R.

Summary

This metadata references a comma-delimited file describing 492 digitized prints of large-format photographs from 160 viewpoints. The photographic images themselves are referenced in a separate metadata file entitled "Photographs Showing Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Grand Canyon, 1889-2012". The viewpoints were first photographed by Stanton in 1889-1890, and then re-photographed in about 1989-1992 and 2010-2012. This set of photos focuses on change in riparian vegetation and partially overlaps a larger set of Stanton viewpoints re-photographed by Webb and others and available at http://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/fscc/stanton-repeat-photography/index.php. The file of descriptive information gives viewpoint stake number, name, and [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jonathan M Friedman
Originator :
Michael L Scott, Robert H Webb, R. Roy Johnson, Raymond M Turner, Jonathan M Friedman, Helen C Fairley
Metadata Contact :
Jonathan M Friedman
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center

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Catalogue_of_Photographs_Showing_Change_in_Riparian_Vegetation_in_the_Grand_Canyon_1889_2012.csv.xml
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Catalogue_of_Photographs_Showing_Change_in_Riparian_Vegetation_in_the_Grand_Canyon_1889_2012.csv 21.65 KB text/csv

Purpose

The original set of photos was collected by Robert Brewster Stanton to document a planned railroad line from Grand Junction, Colorado to San Diego California. The railroad line was never constructed but the photos document conditions in the Grand Canyon prior to regulation of the Colorado River. In order to document changes in the Grand Canyon, the viewpoints were re-photographed by Robert H. Webb and others in 1989-1992 and 2010-2012. The dataset described in this metadata is a subset of this repeat photo collection consisting of viewpoints documenting change in riparian vegetation. Those changes are documented in the attached file of descriptive information and discussed by Scott et al., in review.

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