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Description

This data set provides high-resolution estimates of the thickness of the permeable layers above bedrock (soil, regolith, and sedimentary deposits) within a global 30-arcsecond (~1-km) grid using the best available data for topography, climate, and geology as input. These data are modeled to represent estimated thicknesses by landform type for the geological present.

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Platforms
DEM
Instruments
HYDROMETERS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1900-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2216864025-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
6
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Stratigraphic Sequence ,
Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM) ,
Soil Depth ,
Sediments

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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Pelletier, J. D., Broxton, P. D., Hazenberg, P., Zeng, X., Troch, P. A., Niu, G., Williams, Z. C., Brunke, M. A., & Gochis, D. (2016). Global 1-km Gridded Thickness of Soil, Regolith, and Sedimentary Deposit Layers (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1304 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

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In situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al reveal the complex exposure and erosion history of the landscape once covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome Cavnar, Peyton M., Bierman, Paul R., Shakun, Jeremy D., Corbett, Lee B., LeBlanc, Danielle, Galford, Gillian L., Couette, Pierre-Olivier, Ghienne, Jean-Francois, Lajeunesse, Patrick, van der Woerd, Jerome, Caffee, Marc Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Three-dimensional mapping of key soil properties with multi-stage validation and big data Suleymanov, Azamat, Valiev, Gaziz, Shagaliev, Ruslan, Suleymanov, Ruslan, Belan, Larisa Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
3D-SHI index for quantifying 3D spatial heterogeneity in big Earth data Sun, Peijie, Zhang, Hengcai, Wang, Peixiao, Yu, Jianing Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
From collective to individual radon risk exposure: An insight into the current European regulation Bena, Eleonora, Ciotoli, Giancarlo, Bossew, Peter, Verdi, Luca, Mazzoli, Claudio, Sassi, Raffaele Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Dust emission forecasting using time series spatial data and machine Sanisales, Maryam, Rahmati, Zahed, Boloorani, Ali Darvishi Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Global patterns in observed hydrologic processes McMillan, Hilary, Araki, Ryoko, Bolotin, Lauren, Kim, Dong-Hyun, Coxon, Gemma, Clark, Martyn, Seibert, Jan Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Global map of characterized dust sources using multisource remote Darvishi Boloorani, Ali, Soleimani, Masoud, Papi, Ramin, Nasiri, Nastaran, Amiri, Fatemeh, Neysani Samany, Najmeh, Huang, Kan, Gholami, Iraj, Al-Hemoud, Ali Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Global engineering effects of soil invertebrates on ecosystem functions Wu, Donghao, Du, Enzai, Eisenhauer, Nico, Mathieu, Jerome, Chu, Chengjin Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Mechanisms and drivers of soil pH assessed by Shapley additive explanation Suleymanov, Azamat, Kuzyakov, Yakov, Asylbaev, Ilgiz, Rusakov, Igor, Suleymanov, Ruslan, Tuktarova, Iren, Belan, Larisa Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-Sample SPATially Knoben, Wouter J. M., Thebault, Cyril, Keshavarz, Kasra, Torres-Rojas, Laura, Chaney, Nathaniel W., Pietroniro, Alain, Clark, Martyn P. Crop/Plant Yields, Landscape Patterns, Cropland, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, 24 Hour Precipitation Amount, Snow Water Equivalent, Shortwave Radiation, Vapor Pressure
CAMELS-FR dataset: a large-sample hydroclimatic dataset for France to explore hydrological diversity and support model benchmarking Delaigue, Olivier, Guimaraes, Guilherme Mendoza, Brigode, Pierre, Genot, Benoit, Perrin, Charles, Soubeyroux, Jean-Michel, Janet, Bruno, Addor, Nans, Andreassian, Vazken Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Developing a Spatial Soil Database with Environmental Variables: Experience of the Republic of Bashkortostan Suleymanov, A. R. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Digital mapping of peat thickness and carbon stock of global peatlands Widyastuti, Marliana Tri, Minasny, Budiman, Padarian, Jose, Maggi, Federico, Aitkenhead, Matt, Beucher, Amelie, Connolly, John, Fiantis, Dian, Kidd, Darren, Ma, Yuxin, Macfarlane, Fraser, Robb, Ciaran, Rudiyanto, Setiawan, Budi I., Taufik, Muh Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Gnann, Sebastian, Baldwin, Jane W., Cuthbert, Mark O., Gleeson, Tom, Schwanghart, Wolfgang, Wagener, Thorsten Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Systematic assessment of nonlinear soil behavior at KiK-net sites in Japan: Thresholds and controlling site factors Loviknes, Karina, Bergamo, Paolo, Fah, Donat, Cotton, Fabrice Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Seismic hazard assessment in Sikkim, India using MCDM models Malakar, Sukanta, Saha, Anisha, Biswas, Mimy, Kannaujiya, Vijay K., Rai, Abhishek K. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Increasing phosphorus loss despite widespread concentration decline in US rivers Zhi, Wei, Baniecki, Hubert, Liu, Jiangtao, Boyer, Elizabeth, Shen, Chaopeng, Shenk, Gary, Liu, Xiaofeng, Li, Li Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Ignoring Plant Physiological Responses to Elevated CO<sub>2</sub> Will Sun, Chuanlian, Feng, Xiaoming Vegetation Index, Landscape Patterns, Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Gross Primary Production (gpp), Vegetation Cover, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Primary Production, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development Weber, Tobias Karl David, Weihermuller, Lutz, Nemes, Attila, Bechtold, Michel, Degre, Aurore, Diamantopoulos, Efstathios, Fatichi, Simone, Filipovic, Vilim, Gupta, Surya, Hohenbrink, Tobias L., Hirmas, Daniel R., Jackisch, Conrad, de Jong van Lier, Quirijn, Koestel, John, Lehmann, Peter, Marthews, Toby R., Minasny, Budiman, Pagel, Holger, van der Ploeg, Martine, Shojaeezadeh, Shahab Aldin, Svane, Simon Fiil, Szabo, Brigitta, Vereecken, Harry, Verhoef, Anne, Young, Michael, Zeng, Yijian, Zhang, Yonggen, Bonetti, Sara Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Exploring inferred geomorphological sediment thickness as a new site proxy to predict ground-shaking amplification at regional scale: application to Europe and ... Loviknes, Karina, Cotton, Fabrice, Weatherill, Graeme Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Importance of Terrain and Climate for Predicting Soil Organic Carbon Is Highly Variable across Local to Continental Scales Tan, Tianhong, Genova, Giulio, Heuvelink, Gerard B. M., Lehmann, Johannes, Poggio, Laura, Woolf, Dominic, You, Fengqi Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
LamaH-Ice: LArge-SaMple DAta for Hydrology and Environmental Sciences for Iceland Helgason, Hordur Bragi, Nijssen, Bart Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Prediction of the potential geographical distribution of Cytospora chrysosperma in Xinjiang, China under climate change scenarios Li, Quansheng, Cao, Shanshan, Sun, Wei, Zhang, Zhiyong Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Assessing and mapping of soil organic carbon at multiple depths in the semi-arid Trans-Ural steppe zone Azamat, Suleymanov, Ilgiz, Asylbaev, Ruslan, Suleymanov, Mirsayapov, Ramil, Ilyusya, Gabbasova, Tuktarova, Iren, Belan, Larisa Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Quarries as a Source of Nitrate Pollution in Karst Aquifers: Case Study, the Edwards Aquifer, Texas Doyle, James David Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Thermal Earth model for the conterminous United States using an interpolative physics-informed graph neural network Aljubran, Mohammad J., Horne, Roland N. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Seismic risk assessment using integrated MCDM method in West Bengal, India Malakar, Monalisa, Malakar, Sukanta, Hasan, Mohd Sayeed Ul, Rai, Abhishek K., Kannaujiya, Vijay K. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Spatial Variations of Genetic Horizons Thicknesses and Erosion Degree Assessment in Temperate Soils Suleymanov, Azamat, Komissarov, Mikhail, Asylbaev, Ilgiz, Khasanov, Ayrat, Khabirov, Ilgiz, Suleymanov, Ruslan, Gabbasova, Ilyusya, Belan, Larisa, Tuktarova, Iren Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Mapping potentially groundwater-dependent vegetation in the Mediterranean biome using global geodata targeting site conditions and vegetation ... El-Hokayem, Leonard, De Vita, Pantaleone, Usman, Muhammad, Link, Andreas, Conrad, Christopher Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Laurentide Ice Sheet persistence during Pleistocene interglacials LeBlanc, Danielle E., Shakun, Jeremy D., Corbett, Lee B., Bierman, Paul R., Caffee, Marc W., Hidy, Alan J. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Empirical evaluation of the control period TC for intermediate-depth earthquakes: application for Romania Pavel, Florin, Yaghmaei-Sabegh, Saman Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Earthquake-induced soil landslides: volume estimates and uncertainties Yunus, Ali P., Xinyu, Chen, Catani, Filippo, Subramaniam, Srikrishnan Siva, Fan, Xuanmei, Jie, Dou, Sajinkumar, K. S., Gupta, Ankita, Avtar, Ram Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Environmental factors influencing potential distribution of Schisandra sphenanthera and its accumulation of medicinal components Shang, Jingjing, Zhao, Qian, Yan, Pengdong, Sun, Mengdi, Sun, Haoxuan, Liang, Huizhen, Zhang, Dezhu, Qian, Zengqiang, Cui, Langjun Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Forest density and snowpack stability regulate root zone water stress and percolation differently at two sites with contrasting ephemeral vs. stable seasonal snowpacks Dwivedi, Ravindra, Biederman, Joel A., Broxton, Patrick D., Lee, Kangsan, van Leeuwen, Willem J.D., Pearl, Jessie K. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature
Headwater refuges: Flow protects Austropotamobius crayfish from Faxonius limosus invasion Satmari, Alina, Miok, Kristian, Ion, Mihaela C., Zaharia, Claudia, Schrimpf, Anne, Parvulescu, Lucian Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Reducing risks of antibiotics to crop production requires land system intensification within thresholds Zhao, Fangkai, Yang, Lei, Yen, Haw, Feng, Qingyu, Li, Min, Chen, Liding Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Artificial Intelligence Modelling to Support the Groundwater Chemistry-Dependent Selection of Groundwater Arsenic Remediation Approaches in Bangladesh Wu, Ruohan, Richards, Laura A., Roshan, Ajmal, Polya, David A. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Contribution of Fresh Submarine Groundwater Discharge to the Gulf of Russo, A. A., Boutt, D. F., Munk, L. A., Jenckes, J. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Decoupling of tree height and root depth across the globe and the implications for tree mortality during drought events Feng, Xiangyan, Zhao, Wenzhi, Yang, Qiyue, Zhou, Hai Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
International demand for food and services drives environmental Tang, Fiona H. M., Malik, Arunima, Li, Mengyu, Lenzen, Manfred, Maggi, Federico Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Improving the Prediction of Soil Organic Matter in Arable Land Using Ning, Lixin, Cheng, Changxiu, Lu, Xu, Shen, Shi, Zhang, Liang, Mu, Shaomin, Song, Yunsheng Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates Hasterok, Derrick, Halpin, Jacqueline A., Collins, Alan S., Hand, Martin, Kreemer, Corne, Gard, Matthew G., Glorie, Stijn Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Importance of the mapping unit on the land suitability assessment for agriculture Dornik, Andrei, Chetan, Marinela Adriana, Dragut, Lucian, Iliuta, Andrei, Dicu, Daniel Dorin Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Landforms characterization of Saudi Arabia: Towards a geomorphological map Almalki, Khalid A., Al Mosallam, Mobarak S., Aldaajani, Thamer Z., Al-Namazi, Ali A. Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Knowledge discovery of Middle East dust sources using Apriori spatial Papi, Ramin, Attarchi, Sara, Darvishi Boloorani, Ali, Neysani Samany, Najmeh Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Matrix representation of lateral soil movements: scaling and calibrating CE-DYNAM (v2) at a continental level Fendrich, Arthur Nicolaus, Ciais, Philippe, Lugato, Emanuele, Carozzi, Marco, Guenet, Bertrand, Borrelli, Pasquale, Naipal, Victoria, McGrath, Matthew, Martin, Philippe, Panagos, Panos Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Characterization of Hydrologic Sand and Dust Storm Sources in the Middle Papi, Ramin, Attarchi, Sara, Darvishi Boloorani, Ali, Neysani Samany, Najmeh Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Response of soil respiration to thinning is altered by thinning residue Zhang, Hui, Ying, Binbin, Hu, Yanjing, Wang, Yixiang, Yu, Xiaohui, Tang, Caixian Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Vorhersage von hydrologischen Abflusskennwerten in unbeobachteten Einzugsgebieten mit Machine Learning Klingler, Christoph, Feigl, Moritz, Borgwardt, Florian, Seliger, Carina, Schmutz, Stefan, Herrnegger, Mathew Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
Modeling the climate change impact on the habitat suitability and potential distribution of an economically important hill stream fish, Neolissochilus hexagonolepis, in ... Panja, Soumyadip, Podder, Anupam, Homechaudhuri, Sumit Stratigraphic Sequence, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Soil Depth, Sediments
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