EUB/AGS Inventory of Holocene Landslides, Peace River Area, Alberta (NTS 84C)
This compact disc constitutes release of the report in a common digital format. The common format chosen is Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). This format allows viewing on any computer capable of running a suitable version of Adobe® Acrobat Reader®. Adobe® Acrobat Reader® is available from Adobe's Web site at www.adobe.com.
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This compact disc constitutes release of Geo-Note 2003-43, which includes a brief report and a landslide inventory map prepared for the Alberta Energy Utilities Board/Alberta Geological Survey (EUB/AGS) by M.R. Davies, R.C. Paulen and A.S. Hickin. The intent is to make the maps available in a variety of common digital formats to meet various users needs including GIS operators and those requiring an exact version of the published map in a readily printable format. GIS files are available in ArcInfo Export (.e00) and shapefile formats. The printer-ready files are in Postscript (.eps) format and also in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF).
A brief description follows of each of the folders and how they may be used.
This folder contains Adobe® Acrobat PDF documents of the published version of the maps. This format allows viewing on any computer capable of running a suitable version of Adobe® Acrobat Reader®.
This folder contains postscript files of the published version of the maps. These files can be either imported into a graphics software package or plotted directly from the Windows Explorer window:
Table 1. Contents of folders PDF and Postscript
File |
PDF Report (.pdf) | Title | PDF Map (.pdf) |
Postscript Map (.eps) |
Title |
Scale |
NTS84C |
yes | Digital Inventory Map of Holocene Landslides, Peace River Area (NTS 84C) | yes |
yes |
Inventory of Holocene Landslides, Peace River Area (NTS 84C) |
1:250 000 |
Export files in this folder were created from coverages in ArcInfo Version 8.1.2. See Table 2 for projection parameters and Table 3 for coverage descriptions.
Shapefiles provided were created in ArcView version 3.2a. See Table 2 for projection parameters and Table 3 for shapefile descriptions. A free version of ArcExplorer 2.0.800 is included on the CD-ROM for viewing the shapefile.
Projection |
UTM |
Zone |
11 |
Datum |
NAD 83 |
Spheroid |
GRS1980 |
Scale Factor |
0.9996 |
Table 3. Contents of folders ArcExport and ArcView - Landslide data. Detailed descriptions of fields are given in the report.
point features | line features | ||||
smallslides_u11
|
slide_id | unique identifying number | largeslides_u11 | slide_id | unique identifying number |
mat_1 | material involved in first movement | mat_1 | material involved in first movement | ||
mat_2 | material involved in second movement | mat_2 | material involved in second movement | ||
mode_1 | mode of first movement | mode_1 | mode of first movement | ||
mode_2 | mode of second movement | mode_2 | mode of second movement | ||
move_1 | type of first movement | move_1 | type of first movement | ||
move_2 | type of second movement | move_2 | type of second movement | ||
tot_length | total length of slide area | tot_length | total length of slide area | ||
tot_width | total width of slide area | tot_width | total width of slide area | ||
northing | northing coordinate (UTM, Zone 12) | northing | northing coordinate (UTM, Zone 12) | ||
easting | easting coordinate (UTM, Zone 12) | easting | easting coordinate (UTM, Zone 12) | ||
aspect | aspect of slide, cardinal direction | aspect | aspect of slide, cardinal direction | ||
age | relative age of slide | age | relative age of slide |
Once you have installed Adobe® Acrobat Reader®, you can print and navigate to the desired section via the table of contents and the links throughout the report. The links in the table of contents are rollover links, and the 'hand' will turn to a 'pointing hand' when you move your mouse over a section. The links in the report are outlined in blue.
Click on the link below to open the PDF document.
Also on the CD is a metadata folder. Metadata, or "data about data," describe the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of the data.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta, 2005
The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board/Alberta Geological Survey (EUB/AGS) and its employees and contractors make no warranty, guarantee or representation, express or implied, or assume any legal liability regarding the correctness, accuracy, completeness, or reliability of this publication. Any digital data and software supplied with this publication are subject to the license conditions. The data are supplied on the understanding that they are for the sole use of the licensee and will not be redistributed in any form, in whole or in part, to third parties. Any references to proprietary software in the documentation, and/or any use of proprietary data formats in this release, do not constitute endorsement by the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board/Alberta Geological Survey of any manufacturers product.
If this product is an EUB/AGS Special Report, the information is provided as received from the author and has not been edited for conformity to EUB/AGS standards.
When using information from this publication in other publications or presentations, acknowledgment must be given to the EUB/AGS. The following reference format is recommended:.
Davies, M.R., Paulen, R.C. and Hickin, A.S. (2005): Inventory of Holocene Landslides, Peace River Area, Alberta (NTS 84C); Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, EUB/AGS Geo-Note 2003-03.