QTHICK: Quaternary sediment thickness within the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario, Canada, 2008 (ESRI GRID)

Metadata:

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

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey

Publication_Date: 2010

Title:

QTHICK: Quaternary sediment thickness within the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario, Canada, 2008 (ESRI GRID)

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: 2010-1035

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Online_Linkage:

htpp://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1035/gis_catalog/geology/qthick/qthick.zip

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1035/html/gis.html>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Jane F. Denny

Originator: David S. Foster

Originator: Charles R. Worley

Originator: Barry J. Irwin

Publication_Date: 2010

Title:

Geophysical data collected from the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario, Canada, 2008-016-FA

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: online

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: 2010-1035

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1035/>

Description:

Abstract:

In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geophysical and sampling survey of the riverbed of the Upper St. Clair River between Port Huron, MI, and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The objectives were to define the Quaternary geologic framework of the St. Clair River to evaluate the relationship between morphologic change of the riverbed and underlying stratigraphy. This report presents the geophysical and sample data collected from the St. Clair River, May 29-June 6, 2008 as part of the International Upper Great Lakes Study, a 5-year project funded by the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada to examine whether physical changes in the St. Clair River are affecting water levels within the upper Great Lakes, to assess regulation plans for outflows from Lake Superior, and to examine the potential effect of climate change on the Great Lakes water levels ( <http://www.iugls.org>). This document makes available the data that were used in a separate report, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1137, which detailed the interpretations of the Quaternary geologic framework of the region. This report includes a description of the suite of high-resolution acoustic and sediment-sampling systems that were used to map the morphology, surficial sediment distribution, and underlying geology of the Upper St. Clair River during USGS field activity 2008-016-FA . Video and photographs of the riverbed were also collected and are included in this data release. Future analyses will be focused on substrate erosion and its effects on river-channel morphology and geometry. Ultimately, the International Upper Great Lakes Study will attempt to determine where physical changes in the St. Clair River affect water flow and, subsequently, water levels in the Upper Great Lakes.

Purpose:

This data set contains a grid representing the total Quaternary sediment thickness within the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario. These data are used to assess the relation between geologic Framework and morphologic changes in the St. Clair River channel.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20080531

Ending_Date: 20080601

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.428486

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.400641

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.015359

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.955796

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General

Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey

Theme_Keyword: USGS

Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC

Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Theme_Keyword: CMGP

Theme_Keyword: seismic

Theme_Keyword: Boomer sub-bottom profiler

Theme_Keyword: Quaternary

Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity serial number 08016

Theme_Keyword: Sediment Thickness

Theme_Keyword: USGS R/V Rafael

Theme_Keyword: Raster Grid

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters

Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General

Place_Keyword: North America

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: Michigan

Place_Keyword: Great Lakes

Place_Keyword: Upper Great Lakes

Place_Keyword: Lake Huron

Place_Keyword: St. Clair River

Place_Keyword: Upper St. Clair River

Place_Keyword: Canada

Place_Keyword: Ontario

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jane Denny

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2311

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1035/gis_catalog/geology/qthick/qthick_sm.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Thumbnail image of the Quaternary thickness within the St. Clair River

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: David S. Foster

Originator: Jane F. Denny

Publication_Date: 2009

Title:

Quaternary Geologic Framework of the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario, Canada

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: on-line document

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: 2009-1137

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, MA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1137/>

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: John Stockwell

Publication_Date: 2007

Title: Seismic Un*x

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Golden, CO

Publisher: Center for Wave Phenomena - Colorado School of Mines

Online_Linkage: <http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes/>

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Barry, K.M.

Originator: Cavers, D.A.

Originator: Kneale, C.W.

Publication_Date: 1975

Title: Report on recommended standards for digital tape formats

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Geophysics

Issue_Identification: v. 40, no. 02, p. 344-352.

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Houston, TX

Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.seg.org/SEGportalWEBproject/prod/SEG-Publications/Pub-Technical-Standards/Documents/seg_y_rev0.pdf>

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report:

This isopach map was generated from all Boomer sub-bottom data collected within the St. Clair River in 2008.

Completeness_Report: All Boomer seismic data were used to generate this grid.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) navigation data were acquired with a Communications Systems International (CSI), Inc. LGBX Pro receiver and sent to Boomer acquisition software, SonarWiz, where sub-bottom data were recorded in Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y (SEG-Y) format (Barry and others, 1975) with DGPS positions logged to the SEG-Y trace headers.

DGPS accuracy is 1 to 3 meters (<http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/>). Error in horizontal position is introduced due to uncertainty in the measurement of layback of the seismic source. Overall horizontal accuracy is assumed to be on the order of 5 meters.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The nominal resolution of the Boomer system is on the order of 1 meter. Additional error may be introduced due to the uncertainty of the two-way travel time to depth conversion (assumed to be << 1 meter).

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Contribution:

The seismic reflection profiling system utilized a Boomer energy source operated with a power output of 175 joules. The Boomer source was fires at 0.5 s intervals. A single-channel Benthos AQ4 streamer received the seismic reflection signal. The analog signal was band-pass filtered between 100 and 3000 Hz. A 23-db gain was applied. The analog signal was digitized and recorded in SEG-Y format using SonarWiz.MAP +SBP software version 4.03.0089. DGPS coordinates were recorded in the SEG-Y file trace headers in arc seconds. The layback distance from the DGPS antenna to the source and receiver was estimated and applied to the position during acquisition. A total of 200 ms of data were acquired for each trace. A total of 58.5 km of Boomer profiles were collected.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

A Sioseis (<http://sioseis.ucsd.edu/>) script was executed to read the raw SEG-Y (Barry and others, 1975) files, apply a band-pass filter of 500 to 2000 Hz and Automatic Gain Control with a window length of 20 ms. Seismic Unix (version 4.1; Stockwell, 1975) was used to read the processed SEG-Y files, write a Seismic Unix file, and extract SEG-Y trace header information, which included shot number, longitude, latitude, year, filename, Julian day, and time of day (UTC). A scalar was applied to convert geographic coordinates (WGS84) to UTM zone 17 coordinates (WGS84) using Proj (version 4.6.0). The unique shot navigation for each seismic line were then concatenated into a comma delimited (.csv) text file.

Sioseis 2008; Seismic Unix, 4.1; Proj 4.6.0

Process_Date: 2008

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David Foster

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x 2271

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The processed SEG-Y files were loaded into Geographix Discovery SeisVision seismic-interpretation software and associated to the unique shot point and UTM coordinates derived in process step 1.

Geographix Discovery SeisVision R5000

Process_Date: 2008

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David S. Foster

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2271

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The bedrock surface was interpreted and digitized in Geographix Discovery SeisVision. The isochron between the bedrock surface and the riverbed were calculated and exported from Geographix Discovery SeisVision as an ASCII file with x,y,z (easting, northing, time in ms).

Process_Date: 2008

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David S. Foster

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2271

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Isochron points were imported into Dynamic Graphics, Inc. EarthVision surface modeling software. The data points were gridded at a 20 x 20-m cell size. The isochron grid was then converted to thickness in meters using a constant sediment velocity of 1,650 m/s. The isopach of total sediment thickness and elevation of the bedrock surface were exported as X, Y, and Z points (easting, northing, meters).

Dynamic Graphics, Inc. EarthVision version 7

Process_Date: 2008

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David S. Foster

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x 2271

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The X, Y, and Z point data were converted to ESRI grid format using an AML script: xyz2grid.aml.

Process_Date: 2008

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David S. Foster

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2271

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The ESRI grids were exported in ASCII raster format using Arc ToolBox, Conversion Tools, From Raster, Raster to ASCII.

ArcGIS 9.2

Process_Date: 2010

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2311

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster

Raster_Object_Information:

Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell

Row_Count: 329

Column_Count: 108

Vertical_Count: 1

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator

Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 17

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999600

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -81.000000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000

False_Easting: 500000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: row and column

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 20.000000

Ordinate_Resolution: 20.000000

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984

Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2311

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Distribution_Liability:

Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. 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.

Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: WinZip

Format_Version_Number: 9.0

Format_Specification: WinZip 9.0

Format_Information_Content:

This WinZip file contains a grid and ASCII raster file of the Quaternary sediment thickness within the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario, Canada

Transfer_Size: 73 KB

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

htp://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1035/gis_catalog/geology/qthick/qthick.zip

Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW)

Fees: none

Technical_Prerequisites:

The grid contained in the qthick.zip file is available as an ESRI Binary grid and an ASCII grid with an ESRI header. However, the folder structure within qthick.zip is critical to proper use of the ESRI binary grid.

To utilize these data, the user must have a GIS software package capable of reading ESRI Binary grids or ASCII grids with ESRI headers, or be able to manipulate an ASCII matrix with a geospatial header. The ASCII raster files can be easily converted to ESRI grid format in either ArcView with Spatial Analyst extension (Import Data Source: ASCII Raster) or ArcGIS with Spatial Analyst extension (ASCII to Raster). The user should select floating point grid (as opposed to integer grid) when converting the data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20110125

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny

Contact_Position: Geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 384 Woods Hole Road

City: Woods Hole

State_or_Province: MA

Postal_Code: 02543

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2311

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@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