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Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)

Dates

Release Date
1970-01-01
Publication Date

Citation

Hitt, K.J. and Nakagaki, N., 1970, Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9C2I3VQ.

Summary

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This is a polygon coverage of the Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the conterminous United States. Land resource regions are geographic areas that are characterized by a particular pattern of soils, climate, water resources and land uses. (USDA, Soil Conservation Service, 1981). Major land resource areas are subregions of the land resource regions and comprise smaller homogeneous areas. The scale of this coverage is 1:2,000,000. [...]

Contacts

Originator :
Adapted from U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey, USGS
SDC Data Owner :
Integrated Modeling & Prediction Division
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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mlra.xml
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View 		27.27 KB application/fgdc+xml
mlra.e00.gz 351.49 KB application/x-gzip
mlra.sdts.tgz 305.13 KB application/x-gzip
mlra.gif thumbnail 13.36 KB image/gif

Purpose

The primary use of this coverage is for regional and national display rather than specific local data analysis due to the small scale (1:2,000,000) of this coverage.
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Provenance

These data were originally released on the Water Mission Area National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node and were migrated to sciencebase.gov in 2023. These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS's policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9C2I3VQ

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