The Vigil Network Site Index: Armells Creek
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General Information
Site Name: Armells Creek
Location: Yellowstone River Basin, Southeastern Montana, USA
Principal Investigator: Robert Curry
Address: University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Date of Site Establishment and/or Field Measurements: 23 July 1975
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Location at Lower End of Basin
Latitude: 46°06'03" N
Longitude: 106°45'44" W
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Purposes
(ranked in order of importance)
- Channel Change
- Vegetation
- Sedimentation
- Erosion
Site Information
Annual precipitation: 380 mm
Elevation: 830 m
Drainage area: 807 km2
Hydrology: Slope m/m 0.0023; W/D ratio @ BF stage 17.3
Bench marks: 6
Photography: 7 exposures, B & W ground photos
U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute maps: Griffin Coulee, MT
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Stream Channels
Channel cross sections: 3
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Vegetation
Transects: 3
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Miscellaneous
Particle size
Stream bed: yes
Bank: yes
Other: Stream order n:4
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Links to Data Files
- University of Montana Yellowstone Vigil Network Sites
- Site Information
- Bench Marks
- Cross Sections
- Vegetation Transects
- Sediment Samples
- Topographic Map Showing Site Location (85 KB)
- Close-Up Topographic Map Showing Site Location (81 KB)
- Planetable Map (23 KB)
- Explanation of Symbols on Planetable Map (27 KB)
- Photograph RL-1 FM-2 MY-1 (20 KB)
- Photograph RL-1 FM-7 MY-1 (24 KB)
- Photograph RL-1 FM-8 MY-1 (19 KB)
- Negatives for Roll 1, Frames 2-8 (15 KB)
Additional Data
Additional data collected but not submitted with this file: Benthic fauna data. A 1973 survey of the area also exists.
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For information on how to obtain USGS topographic maps of this study site, please visit the USGS National Mapping Information Page at http://mapping.usgs.gov.