U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-002

Geological Framework Data from Long Island Sound, 1981-1990:

A Digital Data Release

CERC Core Locations
R/V Atlantic Twin navigation

 

CERC cores Technical Report 81-3 CERC Core Descriptions CERC Core Locations 1984 MMS cores 1988 MMS cores

Atlantic Twin NAVIGATION The map below shows the locations of vibracores collected in Long Island Sound aboard the ATLANTIC TWIN as part of ICONS program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineering and Research Center. Map illustration: Location of CERC cores.   Click on the above image to open a larger map in new a browser window.   Links to the navigation data are available in the table below. The navigation files, which are located in the data/cores/cerc directory at the top level of this report, are provided in two formats and are listed below.  Select the ArcView shapefile name to view the data layer's metadata.   ASCII comma-delimited text cercnav.txt ArcView Shapefile - cercnav zip file These files are a compilation of the core-site locations and have the following data fields: cruise id, date, core number, and latitude and longitude in decimal degrees.  To download the navigation data from this report the user has a couple of options. One option is available while viewing any of the data files through the links above. The user may select the Save As option from the pulldown menu from the File option located on the menu bar. When prompted, the user may then enter the directory and filename of where the data file will be stored on disk. A second option is to access the DVD outside of a WWW browser and copy the file from the data/cores/cerc directory on the DVD to a desired location.

Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey > Coastal and Marine Geology Program > Long Island Sound Studies
Contact: L.J. Poppe (lpoppe@usgs.gov")