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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-001
Surficial Sediment Data from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Vicinity: A GIS Compilation

DATA CATALOG

Skip Table of Contents group; go to Data Catalog listingOFR03-001 Home: return to OFR03-001 homepageINTRODUCTION: Go to introduction and project background descriptionNOMENCLATURE: Go to the section describing size distributions and sediment classificationBROWSE MAPS: Go to browse map and view images showing sediment data distributionDATA CATALOG: Current selection
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red bullet Sediment Data
red bullet Bathymetry Contours
red bullet Basemap Data
red bullet Images
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DATA DICTIONARY: Go to data dictionary describing data field attributes
PHOTO GALLERY: Go to photo gallery with images of ships and samplers involved in the collection of the data presented in this report.REFERENCES: Go to bibliography listing to view suggested referencesRELATED WEBSITES: Go to a list of related websitesACKNOWLEDGMENTS: view acknowledgmentsCONTACTS: view contact informationDISCLAIMER: view disclaimer informationREADME: view readme informationblank.

Data on this publication are provided with geographic coordinates to allow the data to be integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS).  A GIS is defined as a system of hardware and software to support the display, manipulation, and analysis of spatial data for mapping and complex data solving.  This integrated package provides researchers the ability to integrate, analyze and map the various datasets to help with economic and social policy-making decisions regarding the environment.

The 42 individual sediment data layers along with additional basemap data layers have been compiled into an ArcView project file (gome.apr) that is located at the top-level directory of this publication. The project file is intended to be opened and the data viewed with the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) ArcView or ArcGIS software. The project file has been modified to reflect relative paths to the archived data as it has been organized for this publication.  To open the supplied project file and view the datasets, the user must start the appropriate software, navigate to the top-level of this publication and open the project file (gome.apr).

For those who don't have the ESRI software or a compatible GIS data browser available on their computer, a free viewer, ArcExplorer, is available from ESRI. Please note that the ArcExplorer software is limited to the Microsoft Windows operating systems. 

Each GIS data layer from this publication is cataloged below for easy access. The individual data layers are described below and include the shapefile name (e.g. anan71) which is linked to a browse graphic showing the data layer extent and coverage.   Selecting the data layer name will result in the browse graphic being displayed in a separate browser window.

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata for the individual data layers is  provided in three versions (HTML, FAQ, text). Selecting associated metadata files from the table below will open the information in a new browser window

A 'zip' compressed, downloadable archive file containing the components comprising the ArcView shapefile for each data layer is also provided. Compressed downloadable files were created using the Windows program WINZIP v8.0. For those users who do not have software capable of uncompressing the archived zip files, they may obtain a free version of the software from Winzip Computing, Inc. or Pkware, Inc..  In addition to the ArcView shapefile, the sediment data layers are available in an ASCII text format and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet formats to allow users who may not have access to GIS software to read the shapefile an alternate way to view and examine the datasets.  The first record of the ASCII file and Excel spreadsheet contains the name of the data fields for that file.

SEDIMENT DATA

DIRECTORY: data/seddata
Skip Sediment Data table and go to Bathymetry Contour Data table.Data Layer Name
and Description
Metadata Files
anan71 - Neritic sediments of the Merrimack Embayment HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
armstrong74 - Sediment Data from Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
barnhardt - Maine Inner Continental Shelf Sediment Data HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
bigelow - Sediment Data Produced by the Bigelow Laboratory HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
bockman65 - U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office Cores HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
buynevich01 - Fluvial-Marine Interactions, Maine HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
dec41_gom - NODC Lithologic Descriptions HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
folger75 - Bottom Sediments -- Cape Ann to Casco Bay HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
garrison66 - Sediments on the Shelf off Southern New England HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
gomcsdb - Gulf of Maine Contaminated Sediments Database HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
hathaway71 - Textural Data from the Continental Margin Program HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
hathlith71 - Lithologic Descriptions from the Continental Margin Program HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
hollister69 - Sediments on the Shelf South of Martha's Vineyard HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
hough40 - Sediments of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
hough42 - Sediments of Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
johnston94 - Portsmouth Naval Yard Sediment Data HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
larsen02 - Sediment Data from the Kennebec/Androscoggin River System HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
larsen03 - Sediment Data from Cobscook Bay, Maine HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
mckinney70 - Shelf Sediments off Long Island HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
mcmaster60 - Sediments of Narragansett Bay HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
meisburger76 - Sediments of Western Mass Bay HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
mencher - Sediments of Boston Harbor HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
mnhacoe - Army Corps Sediment Data from Maine and New Hampshire HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
moore63 - Sediments of Buzzards Bay HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
mwra - Massachusetts Water Resources Administration Sediment Data HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
nelson86 - Sediment Data from the Great Bay Estuarine System HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
nosgom - NOS Cartographic Codes for Bottom Character HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
pezzetta - Recent Sediments of the Scotian Shelf HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
reid82 - Northeast Monitoring Program Sediment Descriptions HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
rowe78 - Sediment from Northwest Atlantic Ocean HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
savard66 - Sediments of Block Island Sound HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
schlee73 - Sediments off Cape Ann to Cape Cod, MA HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
schwartz65 - Data from Oceanographer, Lydonia, and Gilbert Canyons HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
smithsonian - Lithologic Descriptions of Bottom Sediments HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
stetson36 - Samples from the Georges Bank Canyons HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
stetson38 - Samples collected along transects off the Eastern U.S. HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
usgsecstdb - USGS East Coast Sediment Texture Database
updated December 2004
HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
ward01 - Sediment Data from off New Hampshire HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
wigley61 - Bottom Sediments of Georges Bank HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
wigley65 - Fisheries Sediment Data HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
willett72 - Boston Harbor and approaches HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text
zimmerman72 - Sediment Data from the Continental Rise HTML
FAQ
text
zip
Excel
text

BATHYMETRY CONTOURS

DIRECTORY: data/bathymetry

Skip Bathymetry Data table and go to Basemap Data table.Data Layer Name
and Description

Metadata

Files

ny_gome_contours - New York Bight and Gulf of Maine bathymetric contours HTML
FAQ
text
zip

Skip Sediment Data table and go to Bathymetry Contour Data table.

BASEMAP DATA

DIRECTORY: data/basemaps

Skip Basemap Data table and go to Images Data table.Data Layer Name
and Description

Metadata

Files

eez - Boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the U.S. for the Gulf of Maine surficial sediment GIS project area. HTML
FAQ
text
zip
index - Browse map index areas HTML
FAQ
text
zip
major water - Major Water of the Northeast United States HTML
FAQ
text
zip
lakes - major lakes of the northeast United States HTML
FAQ
text
zip
us_cities_dtl - U.S. National Atlas Cities HTML
FAQ
text
zip
us_cities - locations for cities within the Gulf of Maine GIS project extent with populations of 10,000 or greater and all state capitals HTML
FAQ
text
zip
urban - U.S. Urbanized Areas HTML
FAQ
text
zip
urban_dtl - U.S. National Atlas Urbanized Areas HTML
FAQ
text
zip
hydropoly - U.S. National Atlas Water Feature Areas HTML
FAQ
text
zip
state_bounds - internal US state boundaries HTML
FAQ
text
zip
nos80k - Medium Resolution Digital Vector U.S. Shoreline shapefile for the Gulf of Maine GIS project area HTML
FAQ
text
zip
usa - United States basemap data layer for the Gulf of Maine surficial sediment GIS project area HTML
FAQ
text
zip
canada - Eastern Canadian Provinces HTML
FAQ
text
zip
extent - Project background and extent HTML
FAQ
text
zip

IMAGES

DIRECTORY: data/images

Skip Images Data tableData Layer Name
and Description

Metadata

Files

seagrd - image representation of the NGDC Coastal Relief bathymetry used as a data layer background HTML
FAQ
text
zip

 


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