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Related USGS work in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary are online at <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/mbms>.
Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ARC/INFO format, this metadata file may include some ARC/INFO-specific terminology.
If available, access to physical samples is described in the "WR CMG Sample Distribution Policy" at <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/infobank/bear/programs/html/main/sample-dist-policy.html>.
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This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
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NOAA, 1998, NOS Hydrographic Survey Data, US Coastal Waters: Boulder, CO, World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Data Announcement 98-MGG-03, CD-ROM Set, Version 4.0 <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/hydro.html>.
Wessel, P., and Smith, W. H. F., 1998, New, improved version of Generic Mapping Tools released: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 79 (47), p. 579 <http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/>.
Interpretation was done at the scale of 2.4 m per pixel. At an image resolution of 72 dpi, common to most video screens, this represents a scale of 1:6,800.
>MBGEOLSE.PAT: polygon attribute table
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME
1 AREA 8 18 F 5
9 PERIMETER 8 18 F 5
17 MBGEOLSE# 4 5 B -
21 MBGEOLSE-ID 4 5 B -
25 GRID-CODE 4 8 B -
29 TAG 2 4 B -
AREA, PERIMETER: of polygons in square meters, meters, respectively
MBGEOLSE#: unique internal control number
MBGEOLSE-ID: user-assigned sequence number
GRID-CODE: value keyed to lookup table MBGEOLSE.PLUT below
TAG: flag to label polygon during plotting
>MBGEOLSE.AAT: arc attribute table
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME
1 FNODE# 4 5 B -
5 TNODE# 4 5 B -
9 LPOLY# 4 5 B -
13 RPOLY# 4 5 B -
17 LENGTH 8 18 F 5
25 MBGEOLSE# 4 5 B -
29 MBGEOLSE-ID 4 5 B -
33 LTYPE 15 15 C -
FNODE#, TNODE# starting, ending node of arc, respectively
LPOLY#, RPOLY# polygon to left, right, respectively, of arc
LENGTH length of arc in meters
MBGEOLSE#: unique internal control number
MBGEOLSE-ID: user-assigned sequence number
LTYPE: line type: contact, scratch, fault
>MBGEOLSE.PLUT: polygon symbol lookup table
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME
1 GRID-CODE 4 8 B -
5 DESCRIPTION 35 25 C -
40 AGE 26 26 C -
66 PTYPE 5 5 C -
** REDEFINED ITEMS **
66 LABEL 5 5 C -
Record GRID-CODE DESCRIPTION AGE PTYPE
1 -9 nodata
2 1 Monterey Formation Miocene Tm
3 2 mud and fine sand Quaternary Qmud
4 3 coarse sands Quaternary Qsd
5 4 granitic rock Late Cretaceous Kgr
6 5 pipeline
7 8 relict gravels and sands Quaternary Qgv
8 9 Santa Cruz Mudstone late Miocene Tsc
9 10 Purisima Formation Pliocene and Miocene Tp
10 13 Aromas Sand Quaternary Qa
11 15 Rocks of Sur platform Tertiary and Cretaceous TKu
12 28 Vaqueros(?) Formation Miocene and late Oligocene Tv(?)
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The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.