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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.

Product Summary

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

Citation

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: 2026-05-09

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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