Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Peter C. Smith Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Smith, 1996 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Online_Linkage: Description: Abstract: Recent, severe and persistent erosion along the New Jersey coastline has led to the development of shoreline remediation plans which require the emplacement of large volumes of beach quality sand at the shoreface. To meet the enormous demand for beach quality sediment, nearshore detached sand ridges are investigated to characterize their physical suitability for beach remediation. Analysis of 303 km of seismic reflection (GEOPULSE) profiles and twenty Vibracores (1-6 m) on the inner shelf off of Avalon, New Jersey documents five distinct lithologies which comprise two unconformity bounded units. The lithologies, in relative temporal order, are interpreted as: 1) Pleistocene lake and estuarine facies; 2) Pleistocene fluvial channel facies; 3) Holocene estuarine facies; 4) tidal ravinement channel facies; and 5) inner shelf sand ridge facies. The two unconformity bounded sequences are separated from one another in seismic section by a regional unconformity. The inner shelf sand ridge facies is part of the upper sequence and forms the topographic linear ridge systems. Three large sand ridges are identified through seismic analysis, two of which are considered to be of potential economic importance based upon their location, sediment characteristics and volume estimates. The Inner Sand Ridge contains an estimated 37 million cubic meters of usable sediment. Wood fragments dated at greater than 42 ka were recovered from the lower sequence below the regional unconformity. Purpose: To investigate sources of beach replenishment sand in federal waters offshore of New Jersey Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1996 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.696610 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.526960 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.183900 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.976210 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: Rutgers University Theme_Keyword: New Jersey Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: vibracores Theme_Keyword: navigation Theme_Keyword: descriptions Theme_Keyword: grain size Theme_Keyword: sediment Theme_Keyword: gravel Theme_Keyword: sand Theme_Keyword: silt Theme_Keyword: clay Theme_Keyword: seismic reflection profiles Theme_Keyword: Minerals Management Service Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: New Jersey Place_Keyword: continental shelf Place_Keyword: Avalon Shoal Place_Keyword: Offshore New Jersey Place_Keyword: Mid-Atlantic Place_Keyword: New York Bight Place_Keyword: U.S. East coast Place_Keyword: continental shelf Access_Constraints: None. Use_Constraints: None. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Andrea Friedman Contact_Organization: New Jersey Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 29 Arctic Pkwy Address: PO Box 427 City: Trenton State_or_Province: NJ Postal_Code: 08625-0427 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (609) 292-1185 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (609) 633-1004 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Andrea.Friedman@dep.state.nj.us Data_Set_Credit: Please review the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Smith (1996). Jamey Reid for entering the data for the source report. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Peter C. Smith Publication_Date: October 1996 Title: Nearshore Ridges and Underlying Upper Pleistocene Sediment on the Inner Continental Shelf of New Jersey Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: MSc. Thesis Publication_Information: Publication_Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey Publisher: Dept. of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University Other_Citation_Details: Supported through New Jersey Geological Survey's Cooperative Agreements #14-35-0001-30666 and #14-35-0001-30751 with Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, to investigate sources of beach replenishment sand in federal waters offshore of New Jersey. Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: All attributes were entered and checked by the compilers in a consistent manner. Logical_Consistency_Report: No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data set. Completeness_Report: Core locations and descriptions are provided for 20 vibracores with unique field ids; grain size statistics are provided for 176 analyses Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Navigation equipment consisted of a ship-mounted Loran-C navigational system and a mobile NAVSTAR Global Positioning System transponder with antenna. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Sample identifiers, navigation, core descriptions, and grain-size statistics were hand-entered from the Smith Thesis to create an Excel spreadsheet file. Additional fields were added for project identification purposes. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Smith, 1996 document Process_Date: 20020717 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: njthesis.xls Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jamey M. Reid Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Specialist (Data Management) 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 x 2204 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jreid@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Digital data were checked, formatted to dbSEABED input format, then processed using dbSEABED software to produce a range of output formats. The processing contained quality checking that may have declined to pass faulty or suspect data to outputs. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: njthesis.xls Process_Date: 20020717 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jamey M. Reid Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Specialist (Data Management) 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 x2204 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jreid@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Corrected latitudes and longitudes with updated information sent by Andrea Friedman of NJGS. Process_Date: January 2005 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jamey Reid Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Specialist (Data Management) Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2204 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jreid@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: Entity point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 291 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: njthesis.dbf Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Atribute Table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. 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