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• Setting & Research

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  Agricultural endmember geology

  Agricultural endmember land use/land cover

  Agricultural endmember soils

  Agricultural endmember topography

• Overview Maps

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• Dynamic Map

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• Data

  Christina River Basin - Stream Suspended Sediment (1993-2012)
  20 components  •   Boulton Run, Christina River Basin, Forest Endmember: Spring Brook, White Clay Creek @ SWRC, Construction Endmember: White Clay Creek below landfill, Lower White Clay Creek, Agricultural Endmember: South Branch Doe Run  •   Water Chemistry, Geomorphology, Biogeochemistry, Hydrology, Geochemistry / Mineralogy  •   Aufdenkampe, A.K.; Newbold, J.D.; Anderson, B. A.; Richardson, D.; Damiano, S.G.

  White Clay Creek Transect A floodplain, Transect C - Climate, Stable Isotopes, Well Water Levels (2012)
  1 components  •   Agricultural Endmember: South Branch Doe Run, Boulton Run, Transect A  •   Biogeochemistry, Climatology / Meteorology, Geochemistry / Mineralogy, Hydrology, Soil Science / Pedology  •   Karwan, Diana L.; Lazareva, Olesya

• Partner Organizations

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    DENIN

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    NSF-CZO

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    Stroud Water Res. Ctr.

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    Univ. Delaware

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Geology

Topography

Climate

Soil

Human Impacts

• Geology

  • metasediments

  

  Agricultural endmember geology

• Topography

  138 - 195 m elevation (176 m mean)

  Elevation data are based on 10m DEM data from USGS National Elevation Data.

  

  Agricultural endmember topography

• Climate

  12 °C	Mean Annual Temp
  1145 mm	Mean Annual Precipitation

  There is an exceptionally long climate record for the Christina River Basin. Our figures are based on 115 years of NOAA data back to 1894 with at least one station per year having at least 360 days of non-missing records in the given year. Visit the climate tab for the entire Christina River Basin to view plots of climate data.

• Soil

  • Inceptisol
  • Ultisol

  

  Agricultural endmember soils

• Human Impacts

  • agricultural land

  

  Agricultural endmember land use/land cover

  Land Use/ Land Cover Types (Level II)

  Category	LULCID	%
  Developed, Open Space	21	3.2
  Deciduous Forest	41	7.5
  Mixed Forest	43	0.5
  Shrub/Scrub	52	3.0
  Pasture/Hay	81	66.1
  Cultivated Crops	82	19.7

   

  Land Use/ Land Cover Types (Level I)

  Category	%
  Open Water	0.0
  Developed, Open Space	3.2
  Developed	0.0
  Barren Land	0.0
  Forest	8.0
  Shrub/Scrub	3.0
  Grassland/Herbaceous	0.0
  Agriculture	85.8
  Wetlands	0.0

  Land use/cover data from the National Land Cover Dataset for 2006.