Smithsonian Institution Master Sediment Data File

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Smithsonian Institution

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title: Smithsonian Institution Master Sediment Data File

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: digital

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.

Publisher: Smithsonian Insitution

Other_Citation_Details:

These data represent digitized data from paper data sheets from the National Ocean Service (NOS) archived at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2001, the digital data were archived at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. The data as used in usSEABED are from NGDC in 2001.

Description:

Abstract: As unpublished data, there is no abstracted information.

Purpose:

The data were collected during dozens of cruises by the National Ocean Service to investigate the sediment type and water depths of areas of interest in United States waters.

Supplemental_Information:

In 2004,the data were migrated to another format file at the Smithsonian Institution.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19630807

Ending_Date: 19970910

Currentness_Reference: collection date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: none planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.68861

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -056.20944

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 61.24000

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 14.27889

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: National Ocean Service

Theme_Keyword: NOS

Theme_Keyword: Smithsonian Institution

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: Oceans and Estuaries

Theme_Keyword: Location

Theme_Keyword: GeoscientificInformation

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:

NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keyword. Version 5.3.3

Theme_Keyword: Marine Sediments

Theme_Keyword: Sediment Composition

Theme_Keyword: Sedimentary Structures

Theme_Keyword: Sedimentary Textures

Theme_Keyword: Terrigenous Sediments

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: Trust Territories

Access_Constraints: Data are available at the Smithsonian Institution.

Use_Constraints:

Cite the National Ocean Service and the Smithsonian Institution as originators of the data.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Contact_Person: Anna Weitzman

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Physical

Address: 10th St. and Constitution Ave., NW

City: Washington

State_or_Province: D.C.

Postal_Code: 20560

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202-633-0846

Data_Set_Credit:

National Geophysical Data Center archived the data as used here (2001)

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Statistical data was digitized by hand at the Smithsonian Institution. At the USGS, the data were viewed in a GIS to determine samples with unlikely locations. In addition, at the University of Colorado, data were passed through a velocity filter to identify samples with notable distances between sequential data points; these samples were tagged. Each tagged sample was manually corrected as possible by comparing the degree and/or minute of location to those within the same cruise ID and day; this affected about 700 samples. Approximately 4300 samples have no location, nonspecific location information, or unresolvable inconsistent locations. These data are not included in the outputs of usSEABED. Where appropriate, data were tested for completeness using MS Excel.

Logical_Consistency_Report: Some data do not pass the location test.

Completeness_Report:

Data are incomplete, as some are missing sampler information and probably not all data have been digitized by the Smithsonian.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Navigational techniques not recorded in report; latitudes and longitudes given in degrees, minutes, seconds.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Water depth determination technique not noted in report. Water depths given in meters.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description: The data are in raw descriptive form from on-board logsheets.

Process_Date: 1998

Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: Smithsonian

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Contact_Person: Anna Weitzman

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Physical

Address: 10th St. and Constitution Ave., NW

City: Washington

State_or_Province: D.C.

Postal_Code: 20560

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202-633-0846

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 60003

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.00028

Longitude_Resolution: 0.00028

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: decimal degrees

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Point

Entity_Type_Definition: SDTS point

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Source report

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Smithsonian identifier

Attribute_Definition: Non-unique identifying number

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 14

Range_Domain_Maximum: 41163

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: unitless

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Project number

Attribute_Definition: NOS project number

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Insitution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Alpha numeric code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Ship

Attribute_Definition: Ship name

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Project_ref

Attribute_Definition: Project reference number

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Alpha numeric code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date_collected

Attribute_Definition: Date of sample collection

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Alpha numeric code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Country_Ocean

Attribute_Definition: Country or ocean where sample was collected

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: State_sea

Attribute_Definition: State or sea where sample was collected

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Specific_locality

Attribute_Definition: Specific locality where sample was collected

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Station

Attribute_Definition: sampling station identification

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Alpha numeric code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Marsden square

Attribute_Definition: Location information

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: numeric code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: latdeg

Attribute_Definition: degree of latitude

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 85

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degree

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: latmin

Attribute_Definition: latitude minute

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 59

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: minute

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: latsec

Attribute_Definition: latitude second

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 59

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: second

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: latns

Attribute_Definition: latitude north south

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: N

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: North

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: S

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: South

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: londeg

Attribute_Definition: degree of longitude

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 175

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degree

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lonmin

Attribute_Definition: longitude minute

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 59

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: minute

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lonsec

Attribute_Definition: longitude second

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 59

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: second

Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lonew

Attribute_Definition: longitude east west

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: E

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: East

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: W

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: West

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Collector

Attribute_Definition: Collector

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Navigation_control

Attribute_Definition: Navigational technique

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Sounding_method

Attribute_Definition: sounding method

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Bottom_description

Attribute_Definition: description of sea floor

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Sample_device

Attribute_Definition: Sampler

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Sediment_type

Attribute_Definition: Sediment description, including biota

Attribute_Definition_Source: Smithsonian Institution

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Core

Attribute_Definition: Core

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Depth_of_core

Attribute_Definition: subsample depth

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: core_length

Attribute_Definition: length of core

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: alpha numeric text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: remarks

Attribute_Definition: remarks

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: analysis

Attribute_Definition: type of analysis performed on sample

Attribute_Definition_Source: source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: text

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lat_precision

Attribute_Definition: best precision of latitude position

Attribute_Definition_Source: Source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: D

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: degree

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: M

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: minute

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: S

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: second

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lon_precision

Attribute_Definition: best precision of longitude position

Attribute_Definition_Source: Source report

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: D

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: degree

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: M

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: minute

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: S

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: second

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Source report

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Contact_Person: Anna Weitzman

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Physical

Address: 10th St. and Constitution Ave., NW

City: Washington

State_or_Province: D.C.

Postal_Code: 20560

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202-633-0846

Resource_Description: NOS sediment data

Distribution_Liability:

Although this dataset has been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data. Users of the data should be aware of limitations of the data due to possible imprecision due to navigational inaccuracies and digitization errors.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ASCII

Format_Information_Content: text

File_Decompression_Technique: unknown

Transfer_Size: 23.6 MB

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Offline_Option:

Offline_Media: Unknown

Recording_Format: Unknown

Compatibility_Information: Unknown

Fees: Unknown

Technical_Prerequisites: Unknown

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 2005

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Jane A. Reid

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Physical and mail

Address: 400 Natural Bridges Drive

City: Santa Cruz

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 95060

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-427-4727

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jareid@usgs.gov

Contact_Instructions: email preferred

Metadata_Standard_Name: CSDGM Version 2

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Access_Constraints: None

Metadata_Use_Constraints:

Metadata was written by a user of the data. Any information available from the Smithsonian Institution is authoritative and supercedes any information given here.