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Shapefiles Defining Areas of Analysis for Proglacial Sediment Studies on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 2017

Metadata Updated: January 21, 2026

This repository contains suites of shapefiles defining areas of analysis used in Anderson and Shean (2021). Three types of shapefiles are included, each bundled into a zip file: First, polygons delineating areas with elevation changes we judge to be overwhelmingly due to sediment motion (as opposed to snow or ice melt), used to calculate final volumes of change reported in Anderson and Shean (2021). File names indicate basin and DoD interval associated with a given polygon. Second, polygons defining areas used for averaging Landsat NDVI values. Third, regular valley-spanning cross sections used to calculate longitudinal profiles of the valley floors over time. Calculating the minimum elevation across these cross sections using the DEMs provided elsewhere in this repository will exactly reproduce results presented in Anderson and Shean (2021). These shapefiles include an attribute table indicating both the distance from the start of the centerline (shp_dist) as well as distance relative to Little Ice Age glacial maxima (lia_dist).

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 11, 2026
Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 11, 2026
Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2026
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:12
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Metadata Type geospatial
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