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U.S. Geological Survey East-Coast Sediment Texture Database

Map showing the locations of sediment samples on the U.S. East Coast

The U.S. Geological Survey East-Coast Sediment Texture Database contains information on the collection, location, description, and texture of samples taken by marine sampling programs at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. Most of the samples are from the Atlantic Continental Margin of the United States, a small number of samples have been collected from a variety of other locations such as Lake Baikal, Russia, the Hawaiian Islands region, Puerto Rico, and Lake Michigan.

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Related USGS Datasets

Surficial Sediment Data from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Vicinity (Poppe and others, 2003)

usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release (Reid and others, 2005)

usSEABED: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release (Buczkowski and others, 2006)

USGS East-Coast Sediment Analysis:Procedures, Database, and GIS Data

Citation

Please cite the following database documentation and URL when information in this database is published:

McMullen, K.Y., Paskevich, V.F., and Poppe, L.J., 2014, GIS data catalog (ver. 3.0, November 2014), in Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Williams, S.J., and Paskevich, V.F., eds., USGS east-coast sediment analysis: Procedures, database, and GIS data, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1001, available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/.

U.S. Geological Survey East-Coast Sediment Texture Database, online at URL:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/sediment/

 

 

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