Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Classification--Admiralty Inlet, Washington

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Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Map elements were visually checked for overshoots, undershoots, duplicate features, polygon closure, and other errors by the lead authors and by the GIS technician(s) who created the digital database. Review drafts of the map were reviewed internally by at least two other geologists for consistency with basic geologic principles and general conformity to USGS mapping standards.
Completeness_Report:
Data are complete: no offshore features that could be accurately identified and represented at the compilation scale of 1:30,000 were eliminated or generalized. The smallest area represented is approximately 200 square meters. All geospatial database elements are attributed.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Polygons were primarily mapped by interpretation of 2-meter-resolution hillshaded bathymetry data from bathymetric lidar and sonar surveys (see sheet 1, OFR 2015-1073). Sea floor video and sediment sample informtion
Map Unit contact locations were interpreted typically at a scale of 1:2,000 using the above base data. Bathymetric sonar and LiDAR data have a horizontal accuracy greater than the resolution of the base data.
Map unit contacts were digitized by heads-up screen digitization of line data on 2-meter-resolution DEMs described above. Horizontal accuracy is estimated to be between 2 and 5 meters depending on how clearly contacts can be resolved.
Most digitized positions on the map are estimated to have better than 5 m horizontal accuracy. There is no elevation data in the database.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Guy R. Cochrane
Originator: Megan N. Dethier
Originator: Timothy O. Hodson
Originator: Kristine J. Kull
Originator: Nadine E. Golden
Originator: Andrew C. Ritchie
Originator: Crescent H. Moegling
Originator: Robert E. Pacunski
Publication_Date: 2014
Title: Southern Salish Sea Habitat Map Series--Admiralty Inlet
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Scientific Investigations Map
Issue_Identification: OFR 2015-1073
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Other_Citation_Details:
See metadata ("Bathymetry_AdmiraltyInlet_metadata.txt") for source data and postprocessing/reprocessing information.
Online_Linkage:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreCarpinteria/metadata/Bathymetry_AdmiraltyInlet_metadata.txt>
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Beginning_Date: 2000
Ending_Date: 2009
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: OFR 2015-1073 (sheet 1, chapter 2)
Source_Contribution: Gridded bathymetry data (2-meter resolution).
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Guy R. Cochrane
Originator: Andrew C. Ritchie
Originator: Kristine K. Kull
Originator: Nadine E. Golden
Originator: Robert E. Pacunski
Publication_Date: 2014
Title: Ground truth studies for the Admiralty Inlet Map Area
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Scientific Investigations Map
Issue_Identification: OFR 2015-1073 (chapter 3)
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Other_Citation_Details: See metadata ("VideoObs_AdmiraltyInlet_metadata.txt").
Online_Linkage:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/935/AdmiraltyInlet/metadata/VideoObs_AdmiraltyInlet_metadata.txt>
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Beginning_Date: 2008
Ending_Date: 2008
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: OFR 2015-1073 (chapter 3)
Source_Contribution: Video observations of geology and biota.
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Map unit Geoform polygons were digitized over underlying 2-meter base layers developed from multibeam bathymetry data. , the specificity of our CMECS geoform interpretations reflects the resolution of the underlying NOS bathymetry. Where there was sufficient resolution to attribute a particular genetic process to a geoform, we ascribed an appropriately specific geoform type. Where bathymetric resolution was low and the genetic interpretation equivocal, our geoform classifications were more generic. Seafloor geoforms were classified based on their physical attributes as observed in the NOS bathmetric surveys and USGS seismic reflection profiles in combination with knowledge of common glacial and estuarine processes and interpretations from the regional geologic literature References Cited: Madden, C.J., K. Goodin, R.J. Allee, G. Cicchetti, C. Moses, M. Finkbeiner, D. Bamford. 2009. Coastal and marine ecological classification standard (Version 3). NOAA and NatureServe. 126 pp. <http://www.csc.noaa.gov/benthic/cmecs/>
Process_Date: 2012
Process_Step:
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The CMECS Substrate Component values are described in Madden and others (2009). Areas near USGS seafloor video transects, within the primary study region (colored areas in figure 2-1) were classified with more specificity, down to Substrate Group or Substrate Subgroup, depending on proximity to ground-truthed transects and the local heterogeneity of the seafloor. Our classification of substrates in areas outside the primary study region was based primarily upon geomorphological interpretations drawn form historical NOS surveys and historical NOS seabed descriptions. Consequently, these interpretations are less specific; substrate classifications in these areas are typically limited to the Substrate Class or Substrate Subclass.
Only data for offshore map units are released digitally in this publication. For onshore geology (sheet 10, SIM 3261), see Dibblee (1986), Tan and others (2003a,b), Tan and Clahan (2004), and Minor and others (2009).
References Cited: Madden, C.J., K. Goodin, R.J. Allee, G. Cicchetti, C. Moses, M. Finkbeiner, D. Bamford. 2009. Coastal and marine ecological classification standard (Version 3). NOAA and NatureServe. 126 pp. <http://www.csc.noaa.gov/benthic/cmecs/>
Process_Date: 2012
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The biological data collected for this study suggest that to some degree combinations of physical parameters depth and substrate type correspond to ‘biotopes’, i.e. that there is some level of predictability about the biotic groups of plants and animals derived that will be found with different combinations of geological and oceanographic parameters. Depth zones in the biotope map are based on Dethier (1992). The biotope polygons were derived by merging depth zone polygons with the CMECS geoform-substrate polygons and creating an integer code to represent the substrate class and depth zone of each polygon. References Cited: Dethier, M.N. 1992. Classifying marine and estuarine natural communities: an alternative to the Cowardin system. Natural Areas Journal 12(2):90-100.
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Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Biotic group is absent from area.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: group_e
Attribute_Definition:
Biotic group characterized by Rhodophyco, Hydroida, encrusting and Laminarial.
Attribute_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Biotic group is absent from area.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Biotic group is present in area.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: biotope
Attribute_Definition: Combination of depth class and substrate class.
Attribute_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 42
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coarse unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 4.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 32
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coarse unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 3.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 12
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coarse unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 1.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 22
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coarse unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 2.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 31
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fine unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 3.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 21
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fine unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 2.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 11
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fine unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 1.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 40
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in depth zone 4.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 10
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in depth zone 1.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 20
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in depth zone 2.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 30
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in depth zone 3.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 41
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fine unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 4.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in not in a depth zone.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 52
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Coarse unconsolidated sediment in depth zone 5.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 50
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined substrate in depth zone 5.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 13
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Rock substrate in depth zone 1.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 23
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Rock substrate in depth zone 2.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 33
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 43
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 53
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Rock substrate in depth zone 5.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: This report
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: tect_sett
Attribute_Definition:
Largest scale of the CMECS Geoform Component is divided into eight planetary features that reflect global tectonic processes.
Attribute_Definition_Source: CMECS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Convergent Active Continental Margin
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Areas where the oceanic lithosphere is subducting beneath the continental lithosphere.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: CMECS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: physio_set
Attribute_Definition:
Physiographic Setting Subcomponent describes landscape level geomorphological features on the scale of 100's of square km.
Attribute_Definition_Source: CMECS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Sound
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
A relatively long narrow waterway or arm of the sea forming a channel between the mainland and an Island.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: CMECS
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 2014
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Contact_Person: Guy R. Cochrane
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 400 Natural Bridges Drive
City: Santa Cruz
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code: 95060-5792
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-460-7554
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 831-427-4748
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gcochrane@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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