Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Jamey M. Reid Publication_Date: 2005 Title: CERCTM29: USACE ICONS Cores, Miami to Palm Beach, Florida Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: Description: Abstract: The Continental Shelf bordering southeastern Florida between Palm Beach and Miami was surveyed by CERC to locate and evaluate sand deposits potentially useable for shore protection projects. Survey data covered 141 square miles of that part of the Continental Shelf between 15- and 100-foot depths, and consisted of seismic reflection profiles and sediment cores from the sea floor. South of Boca Raton to Miami, much of the shelf is rocky with a thin sediment veneer. Relatively thick deposits of sediment have accumulated locally in troughs formed between low reef-like ridges lying parallel to shore. Shelf sediments south of Boca Raton consist almost entirely of sand-size calcareous skeletal fragments. North of Boca Raton to Palm Beach, most of the shelf is overlain by a thick blanket deposit of homogeneous fine-to-medium, gray sand about half of which consists of quartz particles and the remainder of calcareous skeletal fragments. About 200 million cubic yards of sand-size sediment occurs on the shelf south of Boca Raton. Although generally suitable for beach fill in terms of size, degradation of size by abrasion and fragmentation of the delicate particles may occur in the shore environment. More than 380 million cubic yards of sand-size sediment lies on the shelf north of Boca Raton. However, because of its fine size, this sand is not considered ideally suited for beach fill. In terms of potential as beach sand, sand-size sediments from the shelf bordering southeastern Florida is of marginal quality. Purpose: The purpose of this datalayer is to release a digital version of the coring data from a U. S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACOE) Inner Continental Shelf (ICONS) program project from Miami to Palm Beach, Florida Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1969 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.12319 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.02321 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.70491 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.04548 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Field Center Theme_Keyword: USACOE Theme_Keyword: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Theme_Keyword: Coastal Engineering and Research Center Theme_Keyword: cores Theme_Keyword: ICONS Theme_Keyword: vibracores Theme_Keyword: navigation Theme_Keyword: dbSEABED Theme_Keyword: usSEABED Theme_Keyword: descriptions Theme_Keyword: grain size Theme_Keyword: sediment Theme_Keyword: gravel Theme_Keyword: sand Theme_Keyword: silt Theme_Keyword: clay Theme_Keyword: Marine Aggregate Resources and Processes Theme_Keyword: Artificial beach nourishment Theme_Keyword: Beach sediments Theme_Keyword: continental shelf Theme_Keyword: Sea bottom cores Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: Miami Beach Sediments Theme_Keyword: Seismic Reflection Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Miami Place_Keyword: Palm Beach Place_Keyword: Florida Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jeff Williams Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist 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 x2383 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jwilliams@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: tm29.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image map showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Data_Set_Credit: Pleae review the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Williams (1969). Emma Mitchell and Jamey M. Reid for entering the data from the source report. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: S.J.Williams Publication_Date: 1969 Title: Gemomorophology and sediments of the nearshore continental shelf Miami to Palm Beach, Florida Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: TM Issue_Identification: 29 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Washington, D.C Publisher: USACOE, Coastal Engineering and Research Center 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 32 vibracores with unique field ids; grain size statistics are provided for 183 analyses. There descriptions for 77 analyses. Five cores had no recovery and were supplied in the original report without longitude and latitude. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Navigation was by LORAN C. Typical nonrepetitve accuracy for LORAN off Florida is about +/- 200 meters Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Value: 200 Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: S.J. Williams Publication_Date: 1969 Title: Geomorophology and sediments of the nearshore continental shelf Miami to Palm Beach, Florida Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: TM Issue_Identification: 29 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Washington D.C. Publisher: USACOE Coastal Engineering and research Center Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1969 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USACOE TM 29 Source_Contribution: Sample identifiers, navigation, core descriptions, and grain-size statistics were hand-entered from report TM29 to create an Excel spreadsheet file. Process_Step: Process_Description: The source information was entered into an Excel spreadsheet. Additional fields were added for project identification purposes. The table information was exported and saved as an ASCII text file. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: CERCTM29.xls Process_Date: 20020619 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: CERCTM29.txt 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 Wooods 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: Digital data were hand formatted into dbSEABED data entry structure, then filtered and data-mined through dbSEABED software (version: db9_MNEr.bas) Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: CERCTM29.txt Process_Date: 20040614 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Viness Ubert Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Physical Science Technician 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 x2238 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vubert@msn.com 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: 31 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: 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: tm29 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: STATION Attribute: Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE Attribute: Attribute_Label: LATITUDE Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Sample identifiers, navigation, core descriptions, and grain size statistics form the USACOE ICONS program project from Miami to Palm Beach, Florida. Some enries for top and bottom depths were originally reported as "top." In the digital files, "top" was changed and defined as 0-0.02 meters. Distribution_Information: Distributor: 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 Resource_Description: Marine Aggregate Resources and Processes: CERCTM29 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. Trade, firm, or product names and other references to non-USGS products and services are provided for information only and do not constitute endorsement or warranty, express or implied, by the USGS, USDOI, or U.S. Government, as to their suitability, content, usefulness, functioning, completeness, or accuracy Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ArcView shapefile Format_Version_Number: 3.2 Format_Specification: ASCII text File_Decompression_Technique: no compression applied Transfer_Size: 0.263 Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: The original data is available in ASCII text format Available_Time_Period: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 2002 Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20040630 Metadata_Review_Date: 20050503 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Viness Ubert Contact_Position: Physical Science Technician 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 x2238 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vubert@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