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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Arnell S. Forde

Originator: Jennifer L. Miselis

Originator: Dana S. Wiese

Publication_Date: 2014

Title:

Archive of Digital Chirp Subbottom Profile Data Collected During USGS Cruise 12BIM03 Offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, July 2012

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Tabular, vector, and raster digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series

Issue_Identification: 856

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, Fla.

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/>

Description:

Abstract:

In July of 2012, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a geophysical survey offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, La. to investigate the geologic controls on barrier island framework. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital chirp subbottom data, trackline maps, navigation files, Geographic Information System (GIS) information, and formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata. Gained digital images of the seismic profiles are also provided. The archived trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG Y revision 0 format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). Examples of SU processing scripts and USGS software for viewing the SEG Y files (Zihlman, 1992) are also provided.
These data are available for viewing using GeoMapApp (<http://www.geomapapp.org/>) and Virtual Ocean (<http://www.virtualocean.org/>) multi-platform open source software. In addition, the SEG Y files can also be downloaded from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (<http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov>).

Purpose:

To archive all digital chirp subbottom profile data and associated files collected during cruise 12BIM03.

Supplemental_Information:

The USGS Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) - St. Petersburg, Fla., assigns a unique identifier to each cruise or field activity. For example, 12BIM03 tells us the data were collected in 2012 during the third field activity for that project in that calendar year. Refer to <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/activity.html> for a detailed description of the method used to assign the cruise ID. The naming convention used for each subbottom line is as follows: yye##a, where 'yy' are the last two digits of the year in which the data were collected, 'e' is a 1-letter abbreviation for the equipment type (for example, c for 424 chirp), '##' is a 2-digit number representing a specific track, and 'a' is a letter representing the section of a line if recording was prematurely terminated or rerun for quality or acquisition problems.

All Chirp systems use a signal of continuously varying frequency; the system used during this survey produces high-resolution, shallow-penetration (typically less than 50-milliseconds (ms)) profile images of sub-seafloor stratigraphy. The towfish contains a transducer that transmits and receives acoustic energy and is typically towed 1 - 2 meters (m) below the sea's surface. As transmitted acoustic energy intersects density boundaries, such as the seafloor or sub-surface sediment layers, some energy is reflected back toward the transducer, received, and recorded by a PC-based seismic acquisition system. This process is repeated at regular time intervals (for example, 0.125 seconds (s)) and returned energy is recorded for a specific duration (for example, 50 ms). In this way, a two-dimensional (2-D) vertical image of the shallow geologic structure beneath the towfish is produced.

The seismic source utilized during 12BIM03 consisted of an EdgeTech SB-424 towfish running DISCOVER v. 3.51 acquisition software and towed 4 m behind the GPS antenna. The data were acquired using a frequency sweep of 4 - 20 kHz, a 43 kHz sample frequency, and a record length of approximately 30 ms . Based on survey speeds of 3.5 knots, the shot spacing was about 0.450 m.

The binary portion of the unprocessed seismic data are stored in SEG Y rev. 0 (Barry and others, 1975), IBM float format, which is a standard digital format that can be read and manipulated by most seismic processing software packages; the first 3,200 bytes of the file header are in ASCII format instead of EBCDIC format. The SEG Y formatted trace files have a .sgy extension. The SEG Y files may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU) (Cohen and Stockwell, 2010). Also provided are examples of SU scripts that allow users to remove navigation fixes from the SEG Y headers, along with the fix provided for every 1,000 shots, and produce a printable, gained GIF image of each profile. The printable profiles provided here are GIF images gained using SU software. Refer to the Software page of this report for links to example SU processing scripts and USGS software for viewing the SEG Y files (Zihlman, 1992).

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20120723

Ending_Date: 20120731

Currentness_Reference: Data collection interval

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.916378

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.797183

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.094522

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.951025

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificinformation

Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Geology

Theme_Keyword: Coastal information

Theme_Keyword: Marine

Theme_Keyword: Subbottom profile

Theme_Keyword: Seismic reflection

Theme_Keyword: Chirp

Theme_Keyword: Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Theme_Keyword: SEG Y

Theme_Keyword: Barrier Island Mapping

Theme_Keyword: 12BIM03

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Content

Place_Keyword: United States of America

Place_Keyword: Louisiana

Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico

Place_Keyword: Chandeleur Islands

Access_Constraints: None. These data are held in the public domain.

Use_Constraints:

The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originator of the data in future products or derivative research.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell S. Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: Saint Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747 ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/maps/12bim03_location.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Figure 3. Location map of all digital chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Field Activity 12BIM03. This map was created at a scale of 1:125,000.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/maps/12bim03_area1.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Figure 4. Area 1 detailed trackline map of digital chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Field Activity 12BIM03. This map was created at a scale of 1:27,450.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/maps/12bim03_area2.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Figure 5. Area 2 detailed trackline map of digital chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Field Activity 12BIM03. This map was created at a scale of 1:27,450.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/maps/12bim03_area3.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Figure 6. Area 3 detailed trackline map of digital chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Field Activity 12BIM03. This map was created at a scale of 1:27,450.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/maps/12bim03_area4.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Figure 7. Area 4 detailed trackline map of digital chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Field Activity 12BIM03. This map was created at a scale of 1:30,000.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Data_Set_Credit:

Funding and support for this study were provided by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program. We thank R/V Survey Cat captain Nancy DeWitt (SPCMSC) for her assistance in data collection and Will Pfeiffer and Julie Bernier or their assistance with swath data processing. This document was improved by reviews from Kyle Kelso and Ellen Raabe of the USGS - St. Petersburg, Fla. Disc Image Credit: Schmaltz, Jeff, MODIS Rapid Response Team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2004, UnitedStates.A2004106.1855.500m.jpg. Also available on-line at <http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve/6886/UnitedStates.A2004106.1855.500m.jpg>

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Cohen, J.K., and Stockwell, J.W., Jr., CWP/SU

Publication_Date: 2010

Title:

Seismic Unix Release 41: A free package for seismic research and processing, Center for Wave Phenomena, Colorado School of Mines

Online_Linkage: <http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes/>

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Zihlman, F.N., USGS

Publication_Date: 1992

Title:

DUMPSEGY V1.0: A program to examine the contents of SEG Y disk-image seismic data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: 92-590

Other_Citation_Details: 28 pages

Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr92590>

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Barry, K.M., Cavers, D.A., and Kneale, C.W.

Publication_Date: 1975

Title: Recommended standards for digital tape formats

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Geophysics

Issue_Identification: v. 40, no. 2

Other_Citation_Details: pages 344-352

Online_Linkage: <http://www.seg.org/publications/tech-stand/>

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The validity or accuracy of marine subbottom profiles is highly qualitative and dependent on equipment and operating condition variables. Visual inspection of the images rendered from the data did not show major anomalies.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

This dataset is from one field activity with consistent instrument calibrations.

Completeness_Report:

These data are collected along tracklines (2-D) and are therefore inherently incomplete. Due to system malfunctions, subbottom data collection did not begin until July 26, 2013 (DOY 208). However, bathymetry and backscatter data were collected during the entire survey period, and this data is available in a separate report (DeWitt et al., 2014).

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

As the subbottom data were acquired, the position of the vessel was continuously calculated by a CodaOctopus F190 DGPS and subsequently sent to Hypack 2010 navigation software to ensure a consistent grid spacing during data collection. Positions were recorded and written to the trace headers in latitude and longitude coordinates approximately every 1 s using navigation from the CodaOctopus F190 receiver with OmniSTAR High Performance (HP) correction (accurate to within 20 centimeters (cm)). The approximately 4-m offset between the chirp shot and ship's GPS was not accounted for during acquisition, nor have the ASCII navigation files and trackline maps been corrected to reflect the offset.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

These data are not to be used for bathymetry. Two-way travel (TWT) times shown on the printable profile images are relative to the chirp towfish position, not to the sea surface.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Chirp processing: The SEG Y data were processed with Seismic Unix to produce gained GIF images of the subbottom profiles included in this report. A representative chirp data processing sequence consisted of (1) removing navigation data for each shot and converting it to SU format, (2) applying automatic gain control, (3) generating a PostScript image of the traces, and (4) converting the PostScript image to a GIF image. For additional SU processing and script details, please refer to <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/software/su/readme.txt>.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: SEG Y

Process_Date: 2013

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: printable/SEG Y.gif

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell S. Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Navigation processing: Shotpoint navigation, start of line, and 1,000-shot-interval location files were extracted using Seismic Unix software and output as ASCII text files; they were then processed with PROJ.4.7.0 (<http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/>) to generate UTM coordinates (WGS84, Zone 16, meters) from latitude and longitude coordinates. Text files for each seismic line were concatenated into comma-delimited text files (for use with Esri software); one containing unique shotpoint positions (12bim03.txt), another containing the 1,000-shot-interval locations (s12bim03.txt) and the last containing start-of-line locations (12bim03_s), which can be viewed within the nav folder.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 12c**.txt, 012c**.txt

Process_Date: 2013

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03.txt

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: s12bim03.txt

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03_s.txt

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell S. Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

All concatenated, comma-delimited text files were imported into ArcGIS and saved as either a point or polyline file in the Esri shapefile format. Trackline map creation: the trackline maps was created using Esri ArcGIS 10.1 software. The processed navigation file, 12bim03.txt, was imported into ArcMap 10.1 and processed using the Points to Lines ArcScript to create a line shapefile of the cruise tracklines (12bim03_trkln). The 1,000-shot-interval file, s12bim03.txt, and the start-of-line file, 12bim03_s.txt, were imported into ArcMap as point shapefiles 12bim03_shots and 12bim03_sol. Please refer to the shapefile metadata included in the ArcGIS map document located under the Software section of this archive for additional details. All maps were exported to Adobe Illustrator v. 14 for further editing and then later converted into JPEG format with Adobe Dreamweaver v. 10 Build 4117. The maps are unprojected (geographic coordinates, WGS84). The USGS is the originators of all layers used, with the exception of the basemap (LOSCO). Please see the ArcGIS readme file for detailed information about the GIS files used in this report.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03.txt

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: s12bim03.txt

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03_s.txt

Process_Date: 2013

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03_trkln.shp

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03_shots.shp

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 12bim03_sol.shp

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell S. Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data Series preparation: In addition to the process steps described above, the following steps were taken to produce this Data Series report: the handwritten cruise logs were scanned and saved as a PDF file, digital logs were created by A. Forde using the cruise logs and personal accounts of the crew members and saved as PDF files, and an HTML-based format was used to present the various parts of this archive.

Process_Date: 2013

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell S. Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference:

Horizontal X and Y locations (latitude and longitude and Zone 16 UTM coordinates) for each shot are provided as ASCII text files, along with the date and time (UTC) the shot was recorded.

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.0197885540

Longitude_Resolution: 0.0227288676

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D WGS 84

Ellipsoid_Name: WGS 1984

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257223563

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: 12bim03.txt, s12bim03.txt, and 12bim03_s.txt

Entity_Type_Definition: Shotpoint navigation files

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: SEG Y headers (<http://www.seg.org/publications/tech-stand>).

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: UTMX

Attribute_Definition: UTM-X coordinate (Zone 16)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Universal Transverse Mercator Geographic Coordinate System

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 315283

Range_Domain_Maximum: 326627

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: UTMY

Attribute_Definition: UTM-Y coordinate (Zone 16)

Attribute_Definition_Source: Universal Transverse Mercator Geographic Coordinate System

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 3314720

Range_Domain_Maximum: 3330738

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Line

Attribute_Definition: Trackline number

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

The naming convention used for each subbottom line is as follows: yye##a, where 'yy' are the last two digits of the year in which the data were collected, 'e' is a 1-letter abbreviation for the equipment type (for example, c for Chirp), '##' is a 2-digit number representing a specific track, and 'a' is a letter representing the section of a line if recording was prematurely terminated or rerun for quality or acquisition problems.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shot

Attribute_Definition: Shotpoint number

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1

Range_Domain_Maximum: 12389

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Lon

Attribute_Definition: Longitude (decimal degrees)

Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -88.916378

Range_Domain_Maximum: -88.797183

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Lat

Attribute_Definition: Latitude (decimal degrees)

Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 29.951025

Range_Domain_Maximum: 30.094522

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: YEAR

Attribute_Definition: Year

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 2012

Range_Domain_Maximum: 2012

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: DOY:HR:MIN:SEC

Attribute_Definition: Day of year:hour:minute:second

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Day of year, hour, minute and second of data acquisition

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Binary data file: Trace data are available as binary files in SEG Y format. These files have a .sgy extension and range in size from 1.4 to 58.2 MB. These data can be found by going to <http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov>.

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Graphic image file: Printable versions of the subbottom profiles are available as GIF images, links to these images can be found on the Profiles page of this report or by going to <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/profiles/printable/>.

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Navigation file: Navigation files are available as ASCII text files. Provided are raw (unprocessed) shotpoint navigation files (12c**.txt), processed shotpoint navigation (12bim03.txt), processed 1,000-shot-interval location (s12bim03.txt), and a start of line file (12bim03_s.txt). Fields/Attributes [FID, Shape] marked above with an asterisk (*) were created by Esri ArcGIS and are used exclusively by the shapefiles created from the three aforementioned .txt files; these fields are not included in the original navigation files. All remaining attributes listed above in the Entity_and_Attribute_Information: section that do not have an accompanying asterisk are found in 12bim03.txt, s12bim03.txt, and 12bim03_s.txt. Raw and processed navigation data files can be found by going to <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/nav/>.

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

GIS file: The GIS data is provided as a .zip file composed of Esri map documents, shapefiles, and metadata.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Information is derived from SEG Y headers.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Contact_Instructions:

All of this report is available online. The SEG Y files are downloadable from the Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (<http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov>).

Resource_Description: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 856

Distribution_Liability:

This DVD publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data were processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: SEG Y rev. 0

Format_Information_Content:

The SEG Y rev. 0 format (Barry and others, 1975) presented here consists of the following: a 3,600-byte reel identification header, with the first 3,200 bytes consisting of an ASCII header block followed by a 400-byte binary header block, both of which include information specific to line and reel number; a trace data block that follows the reel identification header, with the first 240 bytes of each trace block consisting of the binary trace identification header; and seismic data samples that follow the trace identification header.

File_Decompression_Technique: None

Transfer_Size: 2.9 GB

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Offline_Option:

Offline_Media: DVD

Recording_Format: ISO 9660

Compatibility_Information: Unix, Linux, DOS, Macintosh

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: map document, shapefile, metadata

Format_Information_Content:

The GIS data is composed of map documents, shapefiles, and metadata. Map documents were created with Esri ArcGIS 10.1 software. The shapefiles provided may also be viewed using other versions of Esri desktop software including their free software or ArcGIS Explorer (<http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/>).

File_Decompression_Technique: unzip

Transfer_Size: 127 MB

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/856/software/arc/arc.zip>

Fees: None, if obtained online; otherwise, prices vary.

Ordering_Instructions:

Publications are available from USGS Information Services, Box 25286, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046 (telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS, e-mail: infoservices@usgs.gov).

Technical_Prerequisites:

Use of SEG Y data requires specialized seismic processing software, such as public domain software Seismic Unix (<http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes/>).

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20131113

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Arnell Forde

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 600 4th Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3111

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aforde@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998