ECSTDB2005 - USGS East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2005)
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Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
- Publication_Date: 200508
- Title: ECSTDB2005 - USGS East Coast Sediment
Texture Database (2005)
- Edition: 2.1
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector
digital data
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Open-File Report
- Issue_Identification: 2005-1001
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science
Center, Woods Hole, MA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey,
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Online_Linkage:
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2005.zip>
- Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/htmldocs/datacatalog.htm>
- Larger_Work_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: L.J. Poppe
- Originator: S.J. Williams
- Originator: V.F. Paskevich
- Publication_Date: 2005
- Title:
- USGS East-Coast Sediment Analysis:
Procedures, Database, and GIS Data
- Edition: 1.0
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Open-File Report
- Issue_Identification: 2005-1001
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Woods Hole
Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological
Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Other_Citation_Details:
- Publication and data are released via digital
media (either CD-ROM or DVD). This digital publication may also be
available via the web at pubs.usgs.gov
- Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
- This sediment database contains location, description,
and texture of samples taken by numerous marine sampling programs. Most
of the samples are from the Atlantic Continental Margin of the United
States, but some are from as diverse locations as Lake Baikal, Russia,
the Hawaiian Islands region, Puerto Rico, the Gulf of Mexico, and Lake
Michigan. The database presently contains data for over 23,000 samples,
which includes texture data for approximately 3800 samples taken or
analyzed by the Atlantic Continental Margin Program, a joint U.S.
Geological Survey/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution project
conducted from 1962 to 1970.
- Purpose:
- This ArcView shapefile contains the locations of marine
sediment samples collected and analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey,
Woods Hole Science Center starting in 1962 thru 1999. Distribution of
this dataset allows the user the ability to visualize the information
in a Geographic Information system.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 1955
- Ending_Date: 2004
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Continually
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.520000
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: 123.556830
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 69.460900
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: -16.232067
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
- Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
- Theme_Keyword: USGS
- Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology
Program
- Theme_Keyword: CMGP
- Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center
- Theme_Keyword: WHSC
- Theme_Keyword: surficial sediments
- Theme_Keyword: grain size analyses
- Theme_Keyword: simple bottom descriptions
- Theme_Keyword: grab sampler
- Theme_Keyword: coring
- Theme_Keyword: mud patch
- Theme_Keyword: seafloor geology
- Theme_Keyword: sedimentary dynamics
- Theme_Keyword: sedimentary processes
- Theme_Keyword: strataform
- Theme_Keyword: particle-size analysis
- Theme_Keyword: ArcView shapefile
- Theme_Keyword: point data
- Theme_Keyword: ArcView point shapefile
- Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information System
- Theme_Keyword: GIS
- Theme_Keyword: sample location
- Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report 2005-1001
- Theme_Keyword: OFR 2005-1001
- Theme_Keyword: OFR2005-1001
- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic
Category
- Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries
- Theme_Keyword: location
- Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
- Place_Keyword: U.S. Atlantic East Coast
- Place_Keyword: continental United States
- Place_Keyword: east coast
- Place_Keyword: Atlantic Margin
- Place_Keyword: Florida Platform
- Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico
- Place_Keyword: Great Lakes
- Place_Keyword: Arizona
- Place_Keyword: California
- Place_Keyword: Connecticut
- Place_Keyword: Delaware
- Place_Keyword: Florida
- Place_Keyword: Georgia
- Place_Keyword: Hawaii
- Place_Keyword: Illinois
- Place_Keyword: Louisiana
- Place_Keyword: Maine
- Place_Keyword: Maryland
- Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
- Place_Keyword: Nevada
- Place_Keyword: New Jersey
- Place_Keyword: New York
- Place_Keyword: North Carolina
- Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania
- Place_Keyword: Rhode Island
- Place_Keyword: South Carolina
- Place_Keyword: Virginia
- Place_Keyword: Washington
- Place_Keyword: New England
- Place_Keyword: Pacific
- Place_Keyword: Bermuda
- Place_Keyword: Puerto Rico
- Place_Keyword: Hawaiian Islands
- Place_Keyword: continental shelf
- Place_Keyword: continental slope
- Place_Keyword: Canada
- Place_Keyword: Nova Scotia
- Place_Keyword: Italy
- Place_Keyword: Russia
- Place_Keyword: West Florida Shelf
- Place_Keyword: Albermarle Sound
- Place_Keyword: Aligator River, NC
- Place_Keyword: Atlantic Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Baltimore Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Bay of Fundy
- Place_Keyword: Bear Seamount
- Place_Keyword: Blake Escarpment
- Place_Keyword: Blake Nose
- Place_Keyword: Blake Plateau
- Place_Keyword: Blake Ridge
- Place_Keyword: Block Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Block Island Sound
- Place_Keyword: Boston
- Place_Keyword: Boston Harbor
- Place_Keyword: Browns Bank
- Place_Keyword: Buzzards Bay
- Place_Keyword: Cape Ann
- Place_Keyword: Cape Charles
- Place_Keyword: Cape Cod Bay
- Place_Keyword: Cape Cod National Seashore
Park
- Place_Keyword: Cape Elizabeth
- Place_Keyword: Cape Hatteras
- Place_Keyword: Cape Henry
- Place_Keyword: Cape Fear
- Place_Keyword: Cape Fear Ridge
- Place_Keyword: Cape Lookout
- Place_Keyword: Cape May
- Place_Keyword: Cape Romain
- Place_Keyword: Cape Sable
- Place_Keyword: Casco Bay
- Place_Keyword: Cashes Ledge
- Place_Keyword: Charleston
- Place_Keyword: Chesapeake Bay
- Place_Keyword: Corsair Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Delaware Bay
- Place_Keyword: Delaware River
- Place_Keyword: Delmar Peninsula
- Place_Keyword: Deep Water Dumpsite 106
- Place_Keyword: Dogbone Basin
- Place_Keyword: DWD 106
- Place_Keyword: Escollo Arenas
- Place_Keyword: Falkner Island
- Place_Keyword: Florida Keys
- Place_Keyword: Fire Island
- Place_Keyword: Georges Bank
- Place_Keyword: Gilbert Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
- Place_Keyword: Grand Manan Island
- Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
- Place_Keyword: Heel Tapper Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Hudson Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Hudson River
- Place_Keyword: Hudson Shelf Valley
- Place_Keyword: Hudson Valley
- Place_Keyword: Hydrographer Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Indiana Shoals
- Place_Keyword: Inner Blake Plateau
- Place_Keyword: Inner Shelf
- Place_Keyword: Ipswich Bay
- Place_Keyword: Isle of Shoals
- Place_Keyword: Jeffreys Basin
- Place_Keyword: Jeffreys Ledge
- Place_Keyword: John Day Reservoir
- Place_Keyword: Kennebec
- Place_Keyword: Louisiana
- Place_Keyword: Lake Titicaca
- Place_Keyword: Lake Baikal
- Place_Keyword: Lake Mead
- Place_Keyword: Lake Michigan
- Place_Keyword: Little Bahama Bank
- Place_Keyword: Long Island Sound
- Place_Keyword: Los Angeles
- Place_Keyword: Lydonia Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Mackenzie Delta
- Place_Keyword: Marblehead
- Place_Keyword: Marthas Vineyard
- Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay
- Place_Keyword: Mass Bay
- Place_Keyword: Mexico
- Place_Keyword: Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Place_Keyword: Mid-Atlantic Slope
- Place_Keyword: Mississippi Fan
- Place_Keyword: Monomoy Island
- Place_Keyword: Murray Basin
- Place_Keyword: Nantucket
- Place_Keyword: Nantucket Bay
- Place_Keyword: Nantucket Shoals
- Place_Keyword: Nantucket Sound
- Place_Keyword: Narragansett Bay
- Place_Keyword: Neuse River
- Place_Keyword: North Carolina
- Place_Keyword: New Haven Dumpsite
- Place_Keyword: New Haven Harbor
- Place_Keyword: NYNJ
- Place_Keyword: NY-NJ
- Place_Keyword: New York/New Jersey
- Place_Keyword: New York Bight
- Place_Keyword: New York Harbor
- Place_Keyword: Norfolk Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Northeast Channel
- Place_Keyword: Nova Scotia
- Place_Keyword: Ocean City
- Place_Keyword: Oceanographer Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Oculina Bank
- Place_Keyword: Old Orchard Beach
- Place_Keyword: Oqunquit
- Place_Keyword: Oregon Inlet
- Place_Keyword: Peak Island
- Place_Keyword: Platts Bank
- Place_Keyword: Plum Island
- Place_Keyword: Plymouth
- Place_Keyword: Popham
- Place_Keyword: Popham/Kennebec
- Place_Keyword: Roanoke Point
- Place_Keyword: Saco Bay
- Place_Keyword: Scotian Shelf
- Place_Keyword: South Lake Michigan
- Place_Keyword: Southwest Washington
- Place_Keyword: Sandwich Harbor
- Place_Keyword: Somes Sound
- Place_Keyword: SBNMS
- Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Bank National
Marine Sanctuary
- Place_Keyword: Southern Long Island
- Place_Keyword: Southwest Puerto Rico Shelf
- Place_Keyword: Toms Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Veatch Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Vineyard Sound
- Place_Keyword: Western Puerto Rico Shelf
- Place_Keyword: Western Long Island Sound
- Place_Keyword: Wilkinson Basin
- Place_Keyword: Wilmington Canyon
- Place_Keyword: Wrightsville Beach
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints:
- Public domain data from the U.S. government is freely
redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Larry Poppe
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological
Survey
- Contact_Position: Geologist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical
address
- Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
- City: Woods Hole
- State_or_Province: MA
- Postal_Code: 02543-1598
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2314
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
lpoppe@usgs.gov
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2005-world-thumb.gif>
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
- Thumbnail image showing location of USGS East Coast
surficial sediment samples (ecstdb2005) displayed on world map
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2005-world.gif>
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
- Location of USGS East Coast surficial sediment samples
(ecstdb2005) displayed on world map
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
- <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/data/surficial_sediments/ecstdb2005.jpg>
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
- Image showring location and classification of USGS East
Coast Sediment Texture Database surficial samples plotted along the
U.S. Atlantic East Coast.
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
- Data_Set_Credit:
- The U.S. Geological Survey must be referenced as the
originator of the dataset in any future products or research derived
from these data.
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2;
ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Lawrence J. Poppe(ed.)
- Originator: Chris Polloni(ed.)
- Publication_Date: 20000501
- Title:
- USGS East-Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures,
Database, and Georeferenced Displays
- Edition: 1.0
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Open-File Report
- Issue_Identification: 00-358
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science
Center, Woods Hole, MA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey,
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Other_Citation_Details: Publication
OFR2005-1001 supersedes this publication.
- Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-358/>
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Logical_Consistency_Report:
- No additional checks for topological consistency were
performed on this data.
- Completeness_Report:
- This data set is complete inasmuch as it contains all the
samples processed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole
Science Center (WHSC) Sediment Laboratory through November 2004
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
- Positional accuracy varies due to different systems,
datums, and navigational equipment used over the years.
- Lineage:
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- Source_Information:
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- Type_of_Source_Media: disc
- Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Single_Date/Time:
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- Calendar_Date: 20041201
- Source_Currentness_Reference:
publication date
- Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ecstdb2005.xls
- Source_Contribution:
- This Excel spread sheet contains the accumulated
results of the surficial sediment analysis collected and processed by
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Science Center (WHSC).
This spread sheet was the source of the data converted to the ESRI
shapefile.
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- The requested surficial sediment data fields were
exported from the most current Excel spreadsheet available as a comma
delimited text file.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.xls
- Process_Date: 20010811
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.txt
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: U.S.
Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Polly Hastings
- Contact_Position: Data Specialist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and
physical address
- Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
- City: Woods Hole
- State_or_Province: MA
- Postal_Code: 02543-1598
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508)
548-8700
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508)
457-2310
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- The comma delimited source file was imported into
ArcView to create a table. The table was then converted to an ArcView
shapefile to be used as a GIS data layer.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.txt
- Process_Date: 20050131
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.dbf
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecst0500.shp
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecst0500.shx
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecst0500.sbn
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecst0500.sbx
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecst0500.avl
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.shp
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.shx
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: U.S.
Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Larry Poppe
- Contact_Position: Geologist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and
physical address
- Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
- City: Woods Hole
- State_or_Province: MA
- Postal_Code: 02543-1598
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508)
548-8700 x2314
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508)
457-2310
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
lpoppe@usgs.gov
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- Errors found in the data were corrected for
approximately 80 samples. The Excel file was edited and the shape and
text files were regenerated.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.xls
- Process_Date: 2007
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.shp
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.shx
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.dbf
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.xls
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation:
ecstdb2005.txt
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Katherine
McMullen
- Contact_Organization: U.S.
Geological Survey
- Contact_Position: Sediment Lab
Technician
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and
physical address
- Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
- City: Woods Hole
- State_or_Province: MA
- Postal_Code: 02543
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508)
540-8700 x2277
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508)
457-2310
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
kmcmullen@usgs.gov
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity
point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 23308
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Geographic:
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- Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum
of 1927
- Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: ecstdb2005
- Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute
Table
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Shape
- Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates
defining the features.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FID
- Attribute_Definition: Internal feature
number.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain:
- Sequential unique whole numbers that are
automatically generated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: GROUP
- Attribute_Definition: Number assigned to
data based on source.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Samples taken before start of the joint USGS/WHOI project.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
USGS/WHOI Atlantic Continental Margin Program stations
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- samples analyzed by the USGS Branch of
Atlantic Marine Geology Sediment Laboratory
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: DB_ID
- Attribute_Definition:
- Unique identification number generated in the
sedimentation laboratory of the USGS's Woods Hole Science Center. For
samples analyzed after 1980 this identifier consists of 2 characters
and 3 numerics (e.g. AS114). For samples analyzed prior to 1980, this
identifier consists of 4 numerics possibly followed by as many as 2
characters.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FIELD_NO
- Attribute_Definition:
- Sample name or number as assigned in the field by the
Chief Scientist
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: PROJECT
- Attribute_Definition:
- Name of project or project number under which samples
were taken or data generated; sometimes project name indicates a more
specific area
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
of width 21.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: CRUISE_ID
- Attribute_Definition:
- Name or number of cruise on which sample collected.
Historically cruise identifiers were a combination of ship name, year
of cruise and cruise leg. In more recent years, cruise identifier is a
sequential serial number assigned to field activities within a specific
year.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
of width 21.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: CONTACT
- Attribute_Definition:
- Name of Principal Investigator or Chief Scientist
responsible for data collection (usually first initial and last name)
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
of width 12.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: AREA
- Attribute_Definition:
- General geographic area of data collection. Name is
general enough to easily locate area on a state map.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
of width 33.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LATITUDE
- Attribute_Definition:
- Latitude coordinate, in decimal-degrees, of sample
location. South latitude recorded as negative values.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Maximum: 69.4609
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: signed
decimal degrees
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution:
,00000001
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE
- Attribute_Definition:
- Longitude coordinate, in decimal degrees, of sample
location. West longitude is recorded as negative values.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: -170.52
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 123.55683
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: signed
decimal degrees
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution:
.00000001
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: DEPTH_M
- Attribute_Definition:
- Measured depth of water overlying sediment at sample
time, not corrected for tides, in
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS Eastcoast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.00
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 5001.00
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: .01
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: T_DEPTH
- Attribute_Definition:
- Top depth of the sample below the sediment-water
interface, in centimeters
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS Eastcoast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 115049
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure:
centimeters
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: B_DEPTH
- Attribute_Definition:
- Bottom depth of the sample below the sediment-water
interface, in centimeters
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS Eastcoast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 115054
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure:
centimeters
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: DEVICE
- Attribute_Definition: Device used to collect
the sample.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS Eastcoast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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DREDGE
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CAMERA+DRED
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FLUKES
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SAMPLE
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DIETZ-LAFOND GRAB
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DIETZ-LAFOND SNAPPER
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DREDGE
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D-LF SNAPPER
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ARM
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SAMPLER
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AND D-L SNAP
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DREDGE
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-
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SALINOMETER, VANDORN BOTS
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DREDGE
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-
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VEEN
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-
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SMITH-MAC+MIN W, CAMERA
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-
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SMITH-MACINTYRE GRAB
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Smith-MacIntyre grab sampler
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-
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SMITH-MACINTYRE W/ CAMERA
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-
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SMITH-MACINTYRE W/O CAMERA
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-
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AND CORE
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-
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GRAB
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sample collected with Van Veen grab sampler
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-
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Grab
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sample collected with Van Veen grab sampler
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-
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-
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OBSERVATION
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-
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D-L SNAPPER
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Weight not computed or recorded.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Range_Domain:
-
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- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Modal strength of the second mode in percent
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Value not computed or available for sample.
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
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-
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Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
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-
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-
- Attribute_Label: PHIm2
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: PHIm1
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: PHIM5
- Attribute_Definition:
- -5 Phi - Weight percent of the sample in the
-5Ø fraction (nominal diameter of particles greater than or
equal to 32 mm, but less than 64 mm); very coarse pebbles
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Range_Domain:
-
- Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.00
- Range_Domain_Maximum: 100.00
- Attribute_Units_of_Measure: percent
- Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: .01
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: PHIM4
- Attribute_Definition:
- -4 Phi - Weight percent of the sample in the
-4Ø fraction (nominal diameter of particles greater than or
equal to 16 mm, but less than 32 mm); coarse pebbles
- Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS East Coast
Sediment Texture Database data dictionary
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Range_Domain:
-
- Range_Domai