Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Jamey M. Reid Publication_Date: 2005 Title: CERCTM42: USACE ICONS Cores, Cape Canaveral, 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 Atlantic Inner Continental Shelf off central Florida was surveyed by the Coastal Engineering Research Center to obtain information on morphology, structure, and sediments of the seafloor bottom and shallow subbottom for use in interpretation of Quaternary history and delineation of sand deposits suitable for restoration of nearby beaches. Basic survey data consists of 360 statute miles of high resolution seismic reflection profiling and 90 sediment cores (10 to 20 feet long) collected in water depths of 25 to 90 feet below sea level. Analysis shows the shallow subbottom is characterized by two continuous mappable acoustic horizons which lie nearly parallel to the present surface. The lower one lies at about 40 to 80 feet subsurface and is mid-Pleistocene in age. The upper sonic reflector lies between 10 and 40 feet below bottom, and correlates well with a marked lithologic change from overlying unconsolidated sediments to deposit partially lithified by blocky, mosiac, calcite cement. Radiocarbon dates of intertidal shells and of overlying peats indicate this horizon is a pre-Holocene regressive surface. Slightly oolitic sediments comprising the layer are interpreted to represent a coastal complex deposited during a late Pleistocene (mid-Wisconsin) high sea level. Tertiary strata are truncated by a Pleistocene erosion surface lying at between -120 and -160 feet MSL. Overlying Quaternary sediments overage about 80 feet in thickness. Surficial sediments adjacent to Cape Canaveral are medium to coarse, wellsorted quartzose-mollusk sand. Areal distribution and thickness (up to 40 feet) of this modern sand is directly related to topography: deposits are thickest beneath topographic highs, generally less than 5 feet thick on flat areas, and absent in depressions. Late Pleistocene regressive sediments, which locally crop out, and overlying mid-Holocene, transgressive coastal (lagoon, barrier) sediments, have been reworked and reshaped to form an undulatory surface of active sediments. Late Quaternary and modern deposition has centered around the large, south trending, cape-associated shoals. The large plano-convex isolated shoals lying seaward of cape shoals, particularly The Bull Shoal, represent remnants of earlier cape-associated shoals segmented and stranded during late Holocene sea-level rise. Studies of area beach sediments show them to be derived from: erosion of the shoreface; onshore transport from adjacent shoal regions; and southerly longshore transport into the area. Petrology, faunal assemblages, and textural characteristics indicate that local coastal and shelf sources have been more important in the genesis of modern areal beach sands than southerly longshore drift. Nearly all of the surficial sand deposits are suitable for beach restoration, and the thick deposits associated with topographic highs are the most suitable. Extensive deposits of sand suitable as a borrow source comprise The Bull, Ohio-Hetzel, Chester and Souteast Shoals, which have minimum volumes of 32, 79, 9, and 15 (x106) cubic yards, respectively. Volumes of suitable sand in surveyed portions of Chester Shoal and Southeast Shoal are likely an order of magnitude larger. Total volume of surficial medium-grained sands within the confines of the study area is over 2 x 109 cubic yards. 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 fin Cape Canveral, Florida. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1974 Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.5553 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.4280 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.66197 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.09207 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center Theme_Keyword: USACE 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: Geomorphology Theme_Keyword: Seismic Reflection Theme_Keyword: inner continental shelf sediment and structure study Theme_Keyword: Sand sources Theme_Keyword: Sediments Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Florida Inner Continental Shelf Place_Keyword: Cape Canaveral 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) 548-8700x2383 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jwilliams@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: tm42.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 Field and Duane (1974). 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: Field, Michael E Originator: Duane, D.B. Publication_Date: 1974 Title: Geomorphology and sediments of the inner continental shelf, Cape Canaveral, Florida Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: Technical Memorandum Issue_Identification: 42 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Fort Belvoir, VA Publisher: Department of the Army, Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-GE) 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 are provided for 13 vibracores;grain size for no analyses. There are descriptions for the 17 analyses. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: navigation was by LORAN C. Typical nonrepetitive 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: Field, Michael E Originator: Duane, D.B. Publication_Date: 1974 Title: Geomorphology and sediments of the inner Continental Shelf, Cape Canaveral, Florida Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Series_Information: Series_Name: Technical Memorandum Issue_Identification: 42 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Fort Belvoir, VA Publisher: Department of the Army, Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-GE) Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1975 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: USACOE Technical Memorandum 42 Source_Contribution: Same identifiers, navigation, core descriptions, and grain-size statistics were hand-entered form report TM42 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: CERCTM42.xls Process_Date: 20020619 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: CERCTM42.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 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: 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: CERCTM42.txt Process_Date: 20040618 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@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: 601 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: tm42 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: REF_ID Attribute: Attribute_Label: CORE_ID Attribute: Attribute_Label: LATITUDE Attribute: Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Sample identifiers, navigation, core descriptions, and grain size statistics form the USACOE ICONS program project in Cape Canaveral, 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: CERCTM42 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. 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