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U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes

Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, National Atlas of the United States, and the United States Geological Survey
Originator
Harvard Geospatial Library
Originator
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
Publication Date
20001101
Title
U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes
Edition
2000
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Series Name
ESRI Data Maps
Issue Identification
2000
Publication Information
Publication Place
Redlands, California, USA
Publisher
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
Other Citation Details
Location: ESRI Data Maps 2000 (CD 2) \usa
Online Linkage
https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-esriusvolcano
Abstract
U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes represents volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States.
Purpose
U.S. National Atlas Volcanoes provides the locations of volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years for geographic display and analysis at regional and national levels.
Supplemental Information
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:1,000,000.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
1993
Bounding Box
West
-178.802628
East
179.597260
North
66.349304
South
18.917242
ISO Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Theme Keyword
point
volcanoes
eruptions
geological effects
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Place Keyword
United States
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
1993
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
Access granted to Licensee only.
Use Restrictions
The data are provided under the Harvard University Site License. These data must be used in compliance with the Site License. This means that the data are only available for Harvard Afiliates for use on Harvard owned computers. The data are provided by multiple, third party data vendors under license to ESRI for inclusion on ESRI Data Maps CD-ROMs for use with ESRI(r) software. Each data vendor has its own data licensing policies and may grant varying redistribution rights to end users. Please consult the redistribution rights below for this data set provided on ESRI Data Maps CD-ROMs. As used herein, "Geodata" shall mean any digital data set consisting of geographic data coordinates and associated attributes. The redistribution rights for this data set: Public domain data from U.S. government is freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The terms and conditions below apply to all the data sets provided on the ESRI Data Maps CD-ROMs. Proprietary Rights and Copyright: Licensee acknowledges that the Data and Related Materials contain proprietary and confidential property of ESRI and its licensor(s). The Data and Related Materials are owned by ESRI and its licensor(s) and are protected by United States copyright laws and applicable international copyright treaties and/or conventions. Limited Warranty and Disclaimer: ESRI warrants that the media upon which the Data and Related Materials are provided will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of receipt. THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE LIMITED WARRANTY, AND THE LICENSEE EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE DATA CONTAINS SOME NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS. ESRI DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE DATA WILL MEET LICENSEE'S NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS; THAT THE USE OF THE DATA WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED; OR THAT ALL NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. ESRI IS NOT INVITING RELIANCE ON THIS DATA, AND THE LICENSEE SHOULD ALWAYS VERIFY ACTUAL DATA. EXCEPT FOR THE LIMITED WARRANTY SET FORTH ABOVE, THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Exclusive Remedy and Limitation of Liability: The entire liability of ESRI or its licensor(s) and Licensee's exclusive remedy shall be to terminate the Agreement upon Licensee returning the Data and Related Materials to ESRI with a copy of Licensee's invoice/receipt and ESRI returning the license fees paid to Licensee. IN NO EVENT SHALL ESRI AND/OR ITS LICENSOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES, OR BUSINESS EXPENDITURES, INVESTMENTS, OR COMMITMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BUSINESS; LOSS OF ANY GOODWILL; OR FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS, HOWEVER CAUSED, ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ESRI OR ITS LICENSOR(S) HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. Third Party Beneficiary: ESRI's licensor(s) has (have) authorized ESRI to (sub)distribute and (sub)license its (their) data as incorporated into the Data and Related Materials. As an intended third party beneficiary to this Agreement, the ESRI licensor(s) is (are) entitled to directly enforce, in its own name, the rights and obligations undertaken by the Licensee and to seek all legal and equitable remedies as are afforded to ESRI. In the event that the data vendor(s) has (have) granted the end user permission to redistribute the Geodata, please use proper proprietary or copyright attribution for the various data vendor(s), and provide the associated metadata file(s) with the Geodata. In compliance with FGDC metadata standards, ESRI has attempted to practice proper metadata methodologies by providing any data source information, descriptions, and file names to assist in this effort.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
None planned
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
Delivery Point
380 New York Street
City
Redlands
State
California
Postal Code
92373-8100
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
909-793-2853
Contact Facsimile Telephone
909-793-5953
Contact Electronic Mail Address
info@esri.com
Hours of Service
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
Native Data Set Environment
Windows NT Version 5.0 (Build 2195) ; ESRI ArcInfo 8.1.0.515
Data Quality Information
Logical Consistency Report
No duplicate features are present. The shapefile is exported using Avenue request ExportClean. This request verifies and enforces the correctness of shapes.
Completeness Report
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
The geospatial part of this data set was calculated from latitude/longitude coordinates. The positional accuracy is unknown. Note that some locations are the center point of broad volcanic fields, and that even at individual volcanoes the coordinates given do not necessarily match the eruption site. Tens of kilometers may separate eruptive centers of a single volcano, particularly in large caldera complexes and rift settings.
Lineage
Source
Originator
National Atlas of the United States, and the United States Geological Survey
Originator
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
Publication Date
19981113
Title
nationalatlas.gov(tm) -Volcanoes
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia, USA
Publisher
United States Geological Survey
Online Linkage
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
Type of Source Media
online
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1993
Source Currentness Reference
publication date
Contribution
Attribute and geospatial data
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count
170
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000001
Longitude Resolution
0.000001
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
volcano
Entity Type Definition
The points represent volcanoes thought to be active in the last 10,000 years, in and near the United States.
Entity Type Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
Attributes
FID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
ESRI
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
STATE
The two-letter abbreviation for the state in which the volcano is located. (Federal Information Processing Standards 5-2National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Definition Source
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology; United States Geological Survey
NUMBER
The volcano number based on a system developed by the Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World. The first two digits represent the region, the second two represent the subregion, a hyphen, and the last two or three represent individual volcanoes in the sub region. (Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the WorldInternational Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI))
Definition Source
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
NAME
The name of the volcano. (Names for the features.)
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
ELEVATION
The summit elevation of the volcano in meters. (Numbers for the features.)
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
TYPE
The shape and size of the volcano (morphology).
Caldera(s), Cinder cone(s), Complex volcano, Explosion volcano, Lava dome(s), Maar(s), Pyroclastic cone, Shield volcano(es), Stratovolcano(es), Submarine volcano (?), Tuff rings, Unknown, Volcanic field
List of types of volcanoes
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
STATUS
The kind of evidence for Holocene activity.
Historical
An eruption documented during or shortly after observation.
Radiocarbon
The technique for dating volcanic evidence based on radiocarbon content.
Anthropology
The volcanoes with undated but recent activity described in native legends as well as activity dated by buried artifacts.
Holocene
The volcanoes without dated products but virtually certain to have been active in postglacial time.
Holocene?
The volcanoes (with distinctly less certainty) without dated products but virtually certain to have been active in postglacial time.
Fumarolic
The volcanoes characterized by steam and volcanic gas, or fume, reaching the surface.
Dendrochronology
The dating of the volcano through the study of tree ring growth.
Pleistocene-Fumarolic
The volcanoes (which show good evidence precluding eruptions in the last 10,000 years) characterized by steam and volcanic gas, or fume, reaching the surface.
Pleistocene-Hot Springs
The presence of a large volume of water compared to steam and gas (which show good evidence precluding eruptions in the last 10,000 years).
Seismicity
unknown
Tephrochronology
The volcanoes dated by correlation of different depositional environments (terrestrial, lacustrine, marine, glacial).
Uncertain
The volcanoes with possible Holocene activity, but with questionable documentation.
Varve Count
unknown
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
TIME_CODE
The age of the volcanic eruption.
D1
The last known eruption 1964 or later.
D2
The last known eruption 1900-1963.
D3
The last known eruption 1800-1899.
D4
The last known eruption 1700-1799.
D5
The last known eruption 1500-1699.
D6
The last known eruption A.D. 1-1499.
D7
The last known eruption B.C. (Holocene).
?
The last known eruption is undated, but probably Holocene.
Q
The last known eruptions(s) are quaternary eruptions with the only known Holocene activity being hydrothermal.
U
unknown
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
KNOWN_ERUP
The number of known eruptions. (Numbers for the features.)
Definition Source
Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
MAX_VEI
The volcanic explosivity index, an estimate of explosive magnitude of volcanic eruptions. The VEI is similar to the Richter magnitude scale for earthquakes. It is a simple 0-8 index of increasing explosivity, each interval representing an increase of about a factor of 10. (-1 to 7)
Definition Source
Newhall, C.G. and Self, S., 1982, The volcanic explosivity index (VEI): an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.87, p. 1231-1238.
Distribution Information
Format Name
SHP
Distributor
Harvard Geospatial Library
Online Access
hgl.harvard.edu
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20001030
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Harvard Geospatial Library
Contact Address
Address
OIS
Address
1280 Mass Ave
City
Cambridge
State or Province
MA
Postal Code
02138
Country
USA
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Extensions
Online Linkage
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile Name
ESRI Metadata Profile
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