Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David Twichell Publication_Date: 2005 Title: MASSWASTING.SHP - Mass-wasting deposits within the GLORIA survey area, Gulf of Mexico Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2005-1071 Publication_Information: 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/2005/1071/data/sidescan/interpretation/gloria/masswasting.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Twichell D.C. Originator: Cross V.A. Originator: Paskevich, V.F. Originator: Hutchinson, D.R. Originator: Winters, W.J. Originator: Hart, P.E. Publication_Date: 2005 Title: GIS of selected geophysical and core data in the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope collected by the U.S. Geological Survey Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2005-1071 Publication_Information: 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/2005/1071 Description: Abstract: This GIS overlay is a component of the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center's, Gulf of Mexico GIS database. The Gulf of Mexico GIS database is intended to organize and display USGS held data and provide on-line (WWW) access to the data and/or metadata. Purpose: This GIS data layer shows the distribution of mass-wasting deposits in the Gulf of Mexico. The interpretation was completed by David Twichell using the GLORIA image, multibeam bathymetry, high-resolution seismic profiles, and cores to identify areas of mass wasting. Some of the mass-wasting deposits were reported in publicatons by Paskevich (2000) and Twichell and others (1990; 1991; 2000), while others are reported for the first time here. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19820202 Ending_Date: 19851022 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -95.748373 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.397406 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.201852 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 23.741351 Keywords: Theme: 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: Gulf of Mexico GIS database Theme_Keyword: polyline Theme_Keyword: ArcView Theme_Keyword: shapefile Theme_Keyword: U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone Theme_Keyword: EEZ Theme_Keyword: mass-wasting deposits Theme_Keyword: geologic interpretation Theme_Keyword: GLORIA interpretation Theme_Keyword: Geologic LOng -Range Inclined Asdic Theme_Keyword: sidescan sonar mosaic Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Public domain data from the U.S. government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1071/data/sidescan/interpretation/gloria/masswasting.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Overview image showing the extent and coverage of the data layer. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1071/data/sidescan/interpretation/gloria/masswasting-thumb.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Thumbnail image showing the extent and coverage of the data layer. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Paskevich, V. Publication_Date: 2000 Title: Gulf of Mexico GLORIA sidescan sonar geologic interpretation:ArcView data coverages Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 00-019 Publication_Information: 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/of00-019/ Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Twichell, D.C. Originator: Parson, L.M. Originator: Paull, C.K. Publication_Date: 1990 Title: Variations in the styles of erosion along the Florida Escarpment, eastern Gulf of Mexico Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: Marine and Petroleum Geology Issue_Identification: vol. 7, p. 253-266 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Publisher: Elsevier Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Twichell, D.C. Originator: Kenyon, N.H. Originator: Parson, L.M. Originator: McGregor, B.A. Publication_Date: 1991 Title: Depositional patterns of the Mississippi Fan surface: Evidence from GLORIA II and high-resolution seismic profiles Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: Seismic Facies and Sedimentary Processes of Modern and Ancient Submarine Fans Issue_Identification: pages 349-364 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: New York, NY Publisher: Springer-Verlag Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Twichell, D.C. Originator: Nelson, C.H. Originator: Damuth, J.E. Publication_Date: 2000 Title: Late-stage development of the Bryant Canyon turbidite pathway on the Louisiana continental slope Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Deep-Water Reservoirs of the World edited by Weimer, P., Slatt, R., Coleman, J., Rosen, N., Nelson, H., Bouma, A., Styzen, M., and Lawrence, D. Issue_Identification: Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Section SEPM 20th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 1032-1044. Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Tulsa, OK Publisher: Society of Economic Paleontologists aned Mineralogists Other_Citation_Details: Publication on CD-ROM Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: The data layer has been checked for topological consisitency. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Paskevich, V. Publication_Date: 2000 Title: Gulf of Mexico GLORIA sidescan sonar geologic interpretaiton: ArcView data coverages Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 00-019 Publication_Information: 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/of00-019/ Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM Source_Citation_Abbreviation: geology.shp Source_Contribution: The mass-wasting deposits were selected from the geologic interpretation of the Gulf of Mexico GLORIA imagery and provide a subset of the mass-wasting deposits shown in This GIS data layer. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Twichell, D.C. Originator: Nelson, C.H. Originator: Damuth, J.E. Publication_Date: 2000 Title: Late-stage development of the Bryant Canyon turbidite pathway on the Louisiana continental slope Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Deep-Water reservoirs of the World: Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Section SEPM 20th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference Issue_Identification: pages 1032-1044 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Tulsa, OK Publisher: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM Source_Contribution: Locations of some mass-wasting deposits were derived from this report Process_Step: Process_Description: This interpretive layer shows the distribution of mass-wasting deposits in the deep-water part of the Gulf of Mexico. The shapefile was created in ArcView using 250 m GLORIA sidescan image (gloria.tif) to interpolate between known areas of mass wasting that had been identified on widely spaced high-resolution seismic profiles, and in short cores. The mass-wasting deposits were differentiated into Terrigenous mass-wasting deposits, Carbonate debris flow deposits, and Carabonate talus deposits. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: gloria.tif Process_Date: Unknown Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: masswasting.shp Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The shapefile was reprojected from NAD_27, geographic to WGS84, geographic using the Project utility in ArcToolBox (v. 9.1). Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: masswasting.shp Process_Date: 2005 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: masswasting_PROJECT.shp Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanogrpaher Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Dataset copied. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: masswasting_PROJECT.shp Process_Date: 2005 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: masswasting.shp Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 85 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000000 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000000 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: masswasting Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile attribute table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: AREA Attribute_Definition: Area of polygon in native units Attribute_Definition_Source: Software computed Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.001 Range_Domain_Maximum: 2.086 Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: .001 Attribute: Attribute_Label: PERIMETER Attribute_Definition: Perimeter of polygon in native units Attribute_Definition_Source: software computed Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.028 Range_Domain_Maximum: 11.490 Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: .001 Attribute: Attribute_Label: DESCRIPTIO Attribute_Definition: text description assigned to the polygon feature describing the type of mass-wasting deposit Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: The DESCRIPTION attribute of This GIS data layer divides the mass-wasting deposits into three categories depending on the sediment type. The categories are: Carbonate debris flow deposits - carbonate sediment that was deposited as debris flows. Carbonate talus deposits - large clasts of carbonate material that have failed from the Florida Escarpment Terrigenous mass-wasting - mass-wasting deposits in terrigenous sediment that have not been differentiated by process. Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data. Distribution_Liability: Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: SHP Format_Version_Number: 3.3 Format_Specification: ESRI polyline shapefile Format_Information_Content: The SHP file contains the geospatial data. The SHX file contains the index of the geospatial data. The DBF file contains the attribute data in dBASE format. The PRJ file contains the coordinate system information (optional). The AVL file contains the legend information (optional). The SBN and SBX files contain the spatial index of the geospatial data (optional). The XML file contains the metadata describing the data set .shp.xml. An ASCII version of the metadata file. A browse graphic showing the data layer coverage and extent (optional). File_Decompression_Technique: zip archive Transfer_Size: 0.109 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1071/data/sidescan/interpretation/gloria/masswasting.zip Access_Instructions: Data may be retrieved via any WWW browser. Offline_Option: Offline_Media: DVD-ROM Recording_Capacity: Recording_Density: 4.75 Recording_Density_Units: Gbytes Recording_Format: UDF Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: The data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS® or ArcView® 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20051213 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: David Twichell Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: 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 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time Metadata_Access_Constraints: None Metadata_Use_Constraints: None Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile